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It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. |
RAPT, pp. [from rap.] Transported; ravished.
RAPT, v.t. To transport or ravish. [Not legitimate or in use.]
RAPT, n.
Snatched away] hurried away or along.
Waters rapt with whirling away. Spenser. Transported with love, admiration, delight,
etc.; enraptured.
"The rapt musician."
Longfellow. Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or
meditation.
"Rapt in secret studies." Shak. An
ecstasy; a trance.
[Obs.] Bp. Morton. Rapidity.
[Obs.] Sir T.
Browne. To
transport or ravish.
[Obs.] Drayton. To carry away by force.
[Obs.]
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