Adjective

(en adjective)

(poetic, or, archaic) fascinated, enraptured

* {{quote-book, year=1898, author=Cutcliffe Hyne, title=A Master of Fortune, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The tune carried among the lanes and dwellings of the village, and naked feet pad-padded'' quickly up over dust and the grass; the audience distributed itself within and without the head-man's hut, and listened enrapt ; and the head-man felt the glow of satisfaction that a London hostess feels when she has hired for money the most popular drawing-room entertainer of the day, and her guests condescend to enjoy, and not merely to exhibit themselves as ''blases . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1904, author=Bliss Carman, title=The World's Best Poetry Volume IV., chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet we know not we are listening to it, Thou, the mean while, wast blending with my thought,-- Yea, with my life and life's own secret joy,-- Till the dilating soul, enrapt , transfused, Into the mighty vision passing, there, As in her natural form, swelled vast to Heaven! }}

* {{quote-book, year=1918, author=Francis B. Pearson, title=The Vitalized School, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=She sits enrapt as Shakespeare turns the kaleidoscope of life for her, or stands enthralled by Victor Hugo's picture of the human soul. }}