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What does "rapt" mean?

Rapt: Snatched away; hurried away or along. Waters rapt with whirling away. Spenser.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured. "The rapt musician." Longfellow.
  2. 3.Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation. "Rapt in secret studies." Shak.
  3. 4.An ecstasy; a trance. [Obs.] Bp. Morton.
  4. 5.Rapidity. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
  5. 6.To transport or ravish. [Obs.] Drayton.
  6. 7.To carry away by force. [Obs.] Daniel.

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