Rap"ter (rp"tr), n. A raptor. [Obs.] Drayton.
Rap"tor (rp"tr), n. [L. raptor, from rapere to ravish. See Rapid.] A
ravisher; a plunderer. [Obs.]
||Rap*to"res (rp*t"rz), n. pl. [NL. See Raptor.] (Zoöl.) Same as
||Accipitres. Called also Raptatores.
Rap*to"ri*al (-r*al), a. (Zoöl.) (a) Rapacious; living upon prey; --
said especially of certain birds. (b) Adapted for seizing prey; -- said
of the legs, claws, etc., of insects, birds, and other animals. (c) Of
or pertaining to the Raptores. See Illust. (f) of Aves.
Rap*to"ri*ous (-s), a. [L. raptorius.] (Zoöl.) Raptorial.
Rap"ture (rp"tr; 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.