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To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force. These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin Will quicken, and accuse thee. Shak. This hand shall ravish thy pretended right. Dryden.

One who ravishes (in any sense).

Rapturous; transporting.

In a ravishing manner.

The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, or a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband. Blackstone.

To transport with delight; to enrapture; to fascinate. Spenser.

So as to throw into ecstasy.

The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy; rapture. Glanvill.

To violate; to ravish. Spenser.

rder by treacherous violence. Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated. Dryden.

Blessed. "This patriarch blest." Milton. White these blest sounds my ravished ear assail. Trumbull.

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

To ravish; to debauch. Burton.

The act of ravishing; violation; defilement. Bp. Hall.

hoicest ornament. He died innocent and before the sweetness of his soul was defloured and ravished from him. Jer. Taylor.

One who deflours; a ravisher.

Delightful beyond measure; rapturous; ravishing; as, ecstatic bliss or joy.

Rapturously; ravishingly.

To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish. Shenstone.

To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture; to charm. And I so ravished with her heavenly note, I stood entranced, and had no room for thought. Dryden.