rapt

adj

1. (archaic, not-comparable)Snatched, taken away; abducted.

   “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.”

2. (not-comparable)Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
3. (comparable)Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.

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

   “1851-2, George W. M. Reynolds, The Necromancer, in Reynolds′s Miscellany, republished 1857; 2008, page 247, 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.”

4. (comparable)Enthusiastic; ecstatic, elated, happy.

   “He was rapt with his exam results.”

   “I […]am rapt 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.”

   “2010, Michael Reichert, Richard Hawley, Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys: Strategies that Work—and Why, John Wiley & Sons, US, page 121, 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.”

verb

1. (obsolete)To transport or ravish.

   “The Bards with furie rapt, the British youth among, Unto the charming Harpe thy future honor song”

2. (obsolete)To carry away by force.

   “1819-20, Washington Irving, The Spectre Bridegroom, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., reprinted in 1840, The Works of Washington Irving, Volume 1, page 256, His only daughter had either been rapt away to the grave, or he was to have some wood-demon for a son-in-law, and, perchance, a troop of goblin grandchildren.”

   “Out-rushing from his denne rapts all away”

noun

1. (obsolete)An ecstasy; a trance.

   “the soul then is in rapt”

2. (obsolete)Rapidity.

   “[…] like the great exemplary wheeles of heaven, we must observe two Circles: that while we are daily carried about, and whirled on by the swinge and rapt of the one, we may maintain a naturall and proper course, in the slow and sober wheele of the other.”