A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Rapt, n.2 [L. rapta fem. noun, f. as Rapt,n.1] A ravished or abducted woman. —1632 Lithgow Trav. ii 70.
[Helen is] the inordinate patterne of all willing and licentious rapts
