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Definition of Raptured
1. rapture [v] - See also: rapture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Raptured
Literary usage of Raptured
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"24 Oh, might I cleave, with raptured wing, the waste Of the wide air, then, where
in splendor lie Thy ruins, would my sorrowing spirit haste, ..."
2. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"... with 20 11. in color after the design by "Puck." O. xxvi, 344p. g. $2.50. (O.)
'10. Putnam. A10-2247 Quodlibet of raptured thoughts fugitive. ..."
3. Annotations Upon Popular Hymns by Charles Seymour Robinson (1893)
"O Zion ! lift thy raptured eye; The Jong-expected hour is nigh; The joys of nature
rise again, The Prince of Salem comes to reign. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1855)
"... found of various magnitude. the cyst was raptured from external violence, and
its contents poured into the peritoneal sac, where they were absorbed, ..."
5. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"Their nymphs like yours, their feast divine the same, The raptured foretaste of
immortal fame. So sung the Goddess, while the sister train With joyful ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Merv thenceforward remained in the hands of Persia until 1787, when it was attacked
and raptured by the emir of Bokhara. ..."
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