Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rap \Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped}, usually written {Rapt};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapping}.] [OE. rapen; akin to LG. & D.
   rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa; cf. Dan. rappe sig to
   make haste, and Icel. hrapa to fall, to rush, hurry. The word
   has been confused with L. rapere to seize. Cf. {Rape}
   robbery, {Rapture}, {Raff}, v., {Ramp}, v.]
   1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.

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

            From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund
            Bacon, to Redgrove.                   --Sir H.
                                                  Wotton.

   2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.

   3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to
      transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or
      rapture; as, rapt into admiration.

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

            Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope.

   4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Law]

   {To rap and ren}, {To rap and rend}. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa
      to hurry and r[ae]na plunder, fr. r[=a]n plunder, E. ran.]
      To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden.
      ``[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne.'' --Chaucer.

            All they could rap and rend pilfer.   --Hudibras.

   {To rap out}, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.

            A judge who rapped out a great oath.  --Addison.

Rapt \Rapt\ (r[a^]pt),
   imp. & p. p. of {Rap}, to snatch away.

Rapt \Rapt\, a.
   1. Snatched away; hurried away or along.

            Waters rapt with whirling away.       --Spenser.

   2. Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.;
      enraptured. ``The rapt musician.'' --Longfellow.

   3. Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation.
      ``Rapt in secret studies.'' --Shak.

Rapt \Rapt\, n. [From F. rapt abduction, rape, L. raptus, fr.
   rapere to seize and carry off, to transport; or fr. E. rapt,
   a. See {Rapt}, a., and {Rapid}.]
   1. An ecstasy; a trance. [Obs.] --Bp. Morton.

   2. Rapidity. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.

Rapt \Rapt\, v. i.
   1. To transport or ravish. [Obs.] --Drayton.

   2. To carry away by force. [Obs.] --Daniel.

Source : WordNet®

rapt
     adj 1: deeply moved; "sat completely still, enraptured by the
            music"; "listened with rapt admiration"; "rapt in
            reverie" [syn: {enraptured}, {captive}]
     2: wholly absorbed as in thought; "deep in thought"; "that
        engrossed look or rapt delight"; "the book had her totally
        engrossed"; "enwrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this
        fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de
        la Mare; "rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought" [syn: {absorbed},
         {engrossed}, {enwrapped}, {intent}, {wrapped}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

RAPT
     
        ["An Interpreter for a Language for Describing Assemblies",
        R.J. Popplestone et al, Artif Intell 14:79-107 (1980)].
     
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