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  1.  Full of poetic rapture.

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1751.  J. Brown, Shaftesb. Charac., 389. The inraptured strains of Philocles.

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1827.  Keble, Chr. Y., Circumcision, xii. 4. One high enraptured strain.

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  2.  Rapturously delighted: entranced, ravished.

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1757.  Hurd, Poet. Imitation, Wks. (1811), II. 146. Hardly considered by the inraptured thought as fiction.

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a. 1763.  Shenstone, Poems, Chalm. XIII. 308. Oft gazing on her shade, th’enraptured fair Decreed the substance well deserv’d her care.

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1836.  J. Gilbert, Chr. Atonem., iv. (1852), 62. They broke forth in strains of enraptured admiration.

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1853.  Robertson, Serm., Ser. III. ii. (1872), 26. Its glories … pour in melody upon the enraptured ear.

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