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ravished, ppl. a.|ˈrævɪʃt|
[f. prec. + -ed2.]
1. Carried away by force; violated; ravaged.
1513Douglas æneis iv. v. 48 To Amon he was son, beget..Apon the maid revist Garamantida. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. Prol. 9 The rauish'd Helen, Menelaus Queene. 1692Ray Disc. 35 When Sea, Earth, ravisht Heaven, the curious Frame Of this World's Mass should shrink in purging Flame. 1713Addison Cato ii. v, The spurious brood Of violated maids, of ravish'd Sabines. 1788Burns ‘Fate gave the Word’, The mother-linnet..Bewails her ravish'd young. a1845Barham Cousin Nicholas xxi, The porter..stretched out his hand to secure the ravished peruke.
2. Transported, entranced, enraptured.
1501Douglas Pal. Hon. i. ii, My rauist spreit in that desert terribill. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Cor. 38 Suche as are inspired with the holy gost are not theyr owne men, no more then we see rauished men to be. 1697Dryden Virg. Ecl. v. 70 Thy Verse..So sweet, so charming to my ravish'd Ears. 1768Sir W. Jones Solima Poems (1777) 5 Sooth'd with his lay, the ravish'd air was calm. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 48 Before your ravished eyes New hopes appear. 1901G. B. Shaw Caesar & Cleopatra i. 102 A man comes from the south with stealing steps, ravished by the mystery of the night. 1953R. Lehmann Echoing Grove 22 Ravished startled, they watched the apparition wave up and down,..with rapid wing beats, low above the terraces.
Hence † ˈravishedly adv. Obs.
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 10 She breaketh violently from mee, to run rauishtly into his rugged armes. Ibid. 167 Which maketh them rauishtly melancholly. |