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Enrapt

Enrapt \En*rapt"\, p. a. [Pref. en- + rapt. Cf. Enravish.] Thrown into ecstasy; transported; enraptured.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enrapt

c.1600, "carried away by (prophetic) ecstasy," from en- "make, put in" (see en- (1)) + rapt.

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enrapt

a. (context poetic or archaic English) fascinated, enraptured

Usage examples of "enrapt".

She was so enrapt in her own thoughts that she did not notice the expression on the face of her sister-in-law.

He knew them all by heart, yet he listened enrapt as though for the first time.

Her hand slid along the other cheek, cupping his face for enrapt inspection.

Bass told his story, and his audience listened enrapt for half an hour.

I went on, "and the crew and galley slaves enrapt in our battle royal, none noticed the natural tempest till it struck astern like the fist of a god, as if Father Zeus were counter-punching for smote Andromeda.

And as Sun Hsiung knelt just outside the threshold to her room, enrapt by the serenity of her wa, he felt a pulsing in the nether reaches of his lower belly, a kind of tidal pull that the Awabi divers spoke of where in a lake none should be.