单词 | unraptured |
释义 | unrapturedadj.n. 1. Not raptured; esp. not ecstatic, unenraptured. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > indifference > [adjective] > not fascinated undelighting1570 unraptured1734 1734 Scarborough Misc. 1734 3 Who can on M——et——n unraptur'd gaze? 1746 J. Warton Ode to Fancy 114 Teach him to scorn with frigid art Feebly to touch th' unraptur'd heart. 1821 T. Campbell in New Monthly Mag. 1 16 Nor ever shall the Muse's eye Unraptured greet thy beam. 1855 J. J. Jarves Art-hints xiii. 214 Were all religious artists, Angelicos, Bartolomeos, or Raphaels, the world would have gazed unraptured to this day. 1924 N. Y. Herald-Tribune 3 Aug. x.-xi. 27/5 [It] touched many hearts and awakened many minds to a new and vivid sense of beauty and yet left me unraptured. a1939 J. A. Chadwick Poems by Arjava (1941) 75 For those bruised by arrogant laughter, Unraptured by glamorous show, Is there somewhere a shrine of healing Where truth and friendship grow? 2. Christian Church. In millenarian theology: not caused to ascend into heaven as part of the rapture of the Church (cf. rapture n. 4b). Also as n.: those who are not raptured. ΚΠ 1986 A. G. Mojtabai Blessed Assurance xiv. 179 This is what is in store for the unraptured: devouring fire, and a nation reduced to heaps. 1997 D. Wojcik End of World as we know It iii. 43 Some people..have arranged for their unraptured relatives or friends to become the legal heirs of their property after they are lifted up to meet Jesus. 2012 C. A. Routley Running Prophecy vii. 130 All the billions that remain unraptured will die on this Day of Wrath. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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