KJV Dictionary Definition: ravish

ravish

RAV'ISH, v.t. L. rapio.

1. To seize and carry away by violence.

These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin, will quicken and accuse thee.

This hand shall ravish thy pretended right.

2. To have carnal knowledge of a woman by force and against her consent. Is. 13. Zech. 14.

3. To bear away with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy; to transport.

Thou hast ravished my heart. Prov. 5.

ravished

RAV'ISHED, pp. Snatched away by violence; forced to submit to carnal embrace; delighted to ecstasy.

ravisher

RAV'ISHER, n.

1. One that takes by violence.

2. One that forces a woman to his carnal embrace.

3. One that transports with delight.

ravishing

RAV'ISHING, ppr.

1. Snatching or taking by violence; compelling to submit to carnal intercourse; delighting to ecstasy.

2. a. Delighting to rapture; transporting.

RAV'ISHING, n.

1. A seizing and carrying away by violence.

2. Carnal knowledge by force against consent.

3. Ecstatic delight; transport.

ravishingly

RAV'ISHINGLY, adv. To extremity of delight.

ravishment

RAV'ISHMENT, n.

1. The act of forcing a woman to carnal connection; forcible violation of chastity.

2. Rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy; pleasing violence of the mind or senses.

All things joy with ravishment attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.

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

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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