rare in mod. use. Also 6–7 inravish. [f. EN-1 + RAVISH.] trans. To transport with intense delight; to enrapture.

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1596.  Spenser, Hymn Love, 119. What wonder then if with such rage extreme, Fraile men … so much enrauisht bee?

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1596.  Fitz-Geffrey, Sir F. Drake (1881), 25. Whose Muse is so inravish’d with the lookes Which from your Mistresse ivorie browes do fall.

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1677.  Hallywell, Saving Souls, 88 (T.). Which cannot but enravish every Ingenuous Breast.

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a. 1714.  Abp. Sharp, Serm. (1829), II. 458. We shall … spend the whole eternity … in loving God … in being enravished with all his wise contrivances.

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  Hence Enravished ppl. a.

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1662.  H. More, Enthus. Tri. (1712), 45. The divine Love and Beauty descending into their enravished Souls. [Not in ed. 1656.]

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