Rapt vs Engross - What's the difference?
rapt | engross |
(uncomparable, archaic) Snatched, taken away; abducted.
* Chapman
* Sir H. Wotton
(uncomparable) Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
(comparable) Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.
* 1851-2 , , The Necromancer'', in ''Reynolds?s Miscellany , republished 1857; 2008,
* 1906 , '', ''Works of Ford Madox Ford , 2011,
* 1908 ,
* 1998 , Derel Leebaert, Present at the Creation'', Derek Leebaert (editor), ''The Future of the Electronic Marketplace ,
(comparable) Enthusiatic; ecstatic, elated, happy.
* Addison
* 1996 , James Richard Giles, Wanda H. Giles, American Novelists Since World War II: Fifth Series ,
* 2010 , Michael Reichert, Richard Hawley, Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys: Strategies that Work—and Why , John Wiley & Sons, US,
* 2010 , , I Came to Say Goodbye ,
* 2012 , Greig Caigou, Wild Horizons: More Great Hunting Adventures , HarperCollins (New Zealand),
(obsolete) To transport or ravish.
(obsolete) To carry away by force.
(obsolete) An ecstasy; a trance.
(obsolete) rapidity
(senseid) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* De Quincey
(transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).
To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, pp. 125-6:
To completely engage the attention of.
(obsolete) To thicken; to condense.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To amass.
* Shakespeare
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between rapt and engross
is that rapt is (obsolete) rapidity while engross is (obsolete) to amass.As verbs the difference between rapt and engross
is that rapt is (obsolete) to transport or ravish while engross is (senseid) to write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.As an adjective rapt
is (uncomparable|archaic) snatched, taken away; abducted.As a noun rapt
is (obsolete) an ecstasy; a trance.rapt
English
Adjective
(en 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.
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- It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind.
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- 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.
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- He was rapt with his exam results.
- I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
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- Creatures who navigate long-distance migrations — including the green turtles, wind birds, or great cranes — draw his most rapt commentaries.
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- 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.
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- 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 .
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- 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.
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en verb)- (Drayton)
- (Daniel)
Noun
(en noun)- (Bishop Morton)
- (Sir Thomas Browne)
Anagrams
* part, prat, tarp, trap ----engross
English
Verb
(es)- some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials
- laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail
- After which time the Popes of Rome, engrossing what they pleas'd of Politicall rule into their owne hands, extended their dominion over mens eyes, as they had before over their judgements, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fancied not
- Octavian then engrosses for himself proconsular powers for ten years in all the provinces where more than one legion was stationed, giving him effective control of the army.
- She seems to be''' completely '''engrossed in that book.
- As, when a foggy mist hath overcast / The face of heven, and the cleare ayre engroste , / The world in darkenes dwels
- waves engrossed with mud
- not sleeping, to engross his idle body
- to engross up glorious deeds on my behalf