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To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon. To force their monarch and insult the court. Dryden. I should have forced thee soon wish other arms. Milton. To force a spotless virgin's chastity. Shak.

on, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect. Novel lays attract our ravished ears; But old, the mind inattention hears. Pope.

To ravish; to violate. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To violate; to ravish; to defiour. [Obs.] Rich spoil of ransacked chastity. Spenser.

To commit rape upon; to ravish. raped first by their assailant, and then by the Justice system. Corresponds to 2nd rape, n. 5. To rape and ren. See under Rap, v. t., to snatch.

Ravishment; rape. [Obs.] Shak.

To transport or ravish. [Obs.] Drayton.

A ravisher; a plunderer. [Obs.]

Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause.

ized their slaves and soldiers. That . . . hold out both their ears with such delight and ravishment, to be stigmatized and bored through in witness of their own voluntary and beloved baseness. Milton.

To ravish; to debauch. [R.] Heywood.

ld have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance. Acts. x. 10. My soul was ravished quite as in a trance. Spenser.

To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul. [They] laugh as if transported with some fit Of passion. Milton. We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder. South.

That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.

To ravish; to deflower. [Obs.]

To commit rape on; to ravish; to outrage.

Ravishment; rape; outrage. Shak.

One who violates; an infringer; a profaner; a ravisher.

Ravishment; rape; constupration. To do violence on, to attack; to murder. "She . . . did violence on herself." Shak. -- To do violence to, to outrage; to injure; as, he does violence to his own opinions.