enrapt, pple.
(ɛnˈræpt)
[f. en-1 + rapt.]
‘Carried away’ by prophetic ecstasy; hence, absorbed in contemplation, enraptured.
| 1606 Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. iii. 65, I myself Am like a Prophet suddenly enrapt. 1790 A. Wilson Invocation Poet. Wks. (1846) 53 Enrapt with the prospect, the bard gazed around. 1805 Wordsw. Prelude x. (1850) 289 On the fulgent spectacle..I gazed Enrapt. |
¶ This sense is in some applications undistinguishable from the fig. sense of enwrapt (see enwrap v., and cf. Shakes. Twel. N. iv. iii. 3). Hence a frequent confusion between the two words. In the following passage Johnson regards enrapt as erroneously written for enwrapt:
| c 1730 Pope, etc. Mart. Scriblerus (1742) 130 Nor hath he been so enrapt in these Studies as to neglect, etc. |