Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rapture \Rap"ture\ (r[a^]p"t[-u]r; 135), n. [L. rapere, raptum,
   to carry off by force. See {Rapid}.]
   1. A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with
      violence. [Obs.]

            That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With
            headlong rapture.                     --Chapman.

   2. The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from
      one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing
      passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.

            Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the
            hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion,
            and advances praise into rapture.     --Addison.

            You grow correct that once with rapture writ.
                                                  --Pope.

   3. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. [Obs.] --Shak.

   Syn: Bliss; ecstasy; transport; delight; exultation.

Rapture \Rap"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raptured} (-t[-u]rd;
   135); p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapturing}.]
   To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic]
   --Thomson.

Source : WordNet®

rapture
     n 1: a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;
          "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles
          Dickens [syn: {ecstasy}, {transport}, {exaltation}, {raptus}]
     2: a state of elated bliss [syn: {ecstasy}]