raptare

raptare [CL] 1 to snatch away (forcibly or violently), carry off (in quot. usu. refl. or pass. and in fig. context, sts. w. ad or in & acc. or adv. to indicate direction). b (~ari e mundo) to be snatched from the world, to die. sed fervidus ac si pullus ‥ per extensos scelerum campos inrevocabili furore ~atur Gildas EB 35; ab interna stabilitate projecti huc atque illuc mente vaga ~amur ‥ Bede Ep. Cath. 28; ~amur, trahemur GlC R 7; 1175 cum animus meus ad multa deliberatione plurima ~aretur, cogitavi quod ‥ Arnulf Ep. 105 p. 165; sic ab amore Dei tepefactus homo numerosis / raptatur vitiis, fertur et huc et eo L. Durh. Dial. IV 230; area zodiaci quo sol raptatur ad ortum Hanv. VIII 411. b perquirere coepit quo loci in monasterio corpora sua poni ‥ vellent, cum eas ‥ ~ari e mundo contingeret Bede HE IV 7 p. 219. 2 to move (part of body) violently. brachia vel caetera sui corporis membra in diversa ~ando Bede CuthbP 15 p. 204. 3 to render (forcefully) in a certain state of mind or induce to certain action. timor, ne, fame melioris oblitus, ~ari ambitione archiepiscopatus putaretur W. Malm. GP I 47; ne aliquis, splendore metalli ~atus, scrinium abriperet Ib. V 255; Warinus ‥ ecclesie non multum utilis quia majoris spe honoris preceps ~aretur Ib. V 265.

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