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rapturise

rapturise is the alternative form of rapturize.

Meaning of rapturize

Verb

rapturize (third-person singular simple present rapturizes, present participle rapturizing, simple past and past participle rapturized)

  1. (transitive) To put in a state of rapture.
    • Soothing's various systems were tried, and her amanuensis (he who pens this, by their desire) laid her strange malady before your august body: and then it was, the light of your penetration rapturized the world by proclaiming, that her wings, instead of those her fears imagined, were long enough...1844, John H. Goldsmith, The advance of science, and perfectibility of its professors
  2. (intransitive) To enter a state of rapture.
    • I will not rapturize again: but I give myself great credit in not being crazy out of pure delight.1832, Charles Darwin, The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1821-1836, volume 1, Cambridge University Press, published 1985, letter dated May 3rd 1832

Forms of rapturise

third-person singular presentrapturises
present participlerapturising
past participlerapturised
pastrapturised

Origin of rapturise

From rapture + -ise.

Questions about rapturise

What is rapturise the alternative form of?
Rapturise is the alternative form of rapturize.

Words near rapturise in the dictionary

  1. raptureless
  2. raptures
  3. rapturesome
  4. rapturing
  5. rapturings
  6. rapturise
  7. rapturised
  8. rapturises
  9. rapturising
  10. rapturist
  11. rapturists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rapturise (page history and authors); rapturize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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