rapt - What does it mean?

Adjective

And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt / The whirring chariot.

From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove.

The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.

It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind.

Her expression grew more rapt ; she paused as if she had lost the thread of the words and then spoke again, gazing far out over the hall as jugglers do in performing feats of balancing:.

The Rat never answered, if indeed he heard. Rapt , transported, trembling, he was possessed in all his senses by this new divine thing that caught up his helpless soul and swung and dandled it, a powerless but happy infant in a strong sustaining grasp.

He was rapt with his exam results.

I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.

Creatures who navigate long-distance migrations — including the green turtles, wind birds, or great cranes — draw his most rapt commentaries.

Even in the most rapt accounts of independent student work, there appears an appreciative acknowledgment of the teacher?s having determined just the right amount of room necessary to build autonomy without risking frustration and failure.

One bloke I met in the pub was the owner of the local meatworks. He was rapt' to have the Sudanese, and if 1600 more were coming – that was the rumour – well, he?d have been even more ' rapt .

These are worthy aspects of the hunt to give some consideration to with the next generation, because market forces want us to get more rapt with ever more sophisticated gear and an algorithmic conquering of animal instinct.