raptured

[ rap-cherd ]

adjectiveTheology.

(especially of saints) experiencing religious ecstasy as a result of one's faith.

Origin of raptured

First recorded in 1675–85; rapture + -ed²

Before the group of mother and son she fell into a raptured attitude.
Tales Of Men And Ghosts | Edith Wharton
Still, while yet in love with life and raptured with the world, he passed to silence and pathetic dust.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 | Barkham Burroughs
She eagerly longed to see a place in which she fancied charms short only of those which a raptured saint imagines in heaven.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | Henry Fielding
The soul is raptured to conceive A truth which being must believe; The God eternal died.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History | Henry Coppee
Believe me, Sire, she gave her beauty to my raptured arms with no persuasions but such as became a soldier and a king.
Alroy | Benjamin Disraeli

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