pple. [f. EN-1 + RAPT.] ‘Carried away’ by prophetic ecstasy; hence, absorbed in contemplation, enraptured.
1606. Shaks., 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. Shaks., 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.].
