raptus
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of raptus
1840–50; < Latin: a seizing, equivalent to rap ( ere ) to seize, abduct, rape 1 + -tus suffix of v. action
Example Sentences
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Qualiter ille feris caput inviolabile Parcis Liquit Jordanios turbine raptus agros.
From Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton by Cowper, William
They do but repeat the promise and obscurity of Nature, for she herself has the same largeness, is such another raptus, proceeding to no end, but to a circle or complexity of ends.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various
"It was incendiarism pure and simple: Incendiarii ambitiosi comburantur; and further: raptus decem juvencis puniatur, and rapina palu affigatur."
From Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale by J?kai, M?r
"What king do you place above all other kings, Magister?" asked Petrea for the second time,--having this evening her "raptus" of questioning.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
Ad summos Martis dignitates gradatim assurgens, Gloriæ nobilis metæ appetens, In medio cursu, improvisa lethi vi raptus, 28 Septemb.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Thomson, Mrs.
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