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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ravish \Rav"ish\ (r[a^]v"[i^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ravished}
     (-[i^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Ravishing}.] [OE. ravissen, F.
     ravir, fr. L. rapere to snatch or tear away, to ravish. See
     {Rapacious}, {Rapid}, and {-ish}.]
     1. To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
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              These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin
              Will quicken, and accuse thee.        --Shak.
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              This hand shall ravish thy pretended right.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
        "Ravished . . . for the joy." --Chaucer.
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              Thou hast ravished my heart.          --Cant. iv. 9.
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     3. To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and
        against her consent; to rape. --Shak.
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     Syn: To transport; entrance; enrapture; delight; violate;
          deflower; force.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "ravished":
     abandoned, amok, bellowing, berserk, bursting with happiness,
     carried away, delirious, demoniac, distracted, ecstatic, elate,
     elated, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, entranced, exalted,
     exultant, feral, ferocious, fierce, flushed, frantic, freaked out,
     frenzied, fulminating, furious, haggard, high, hog-wild, howling,
     hysterical, imparadised, in a transport, in ecstasies, in heaven,
     in hysterics, in paradise, in raptures, in seventh heaven,
     intoxicated, jubilant, mad, madding, maniac, on cloud nine,
     orgasmic, orgiastic, overjoyed, overjoyful, possessed, rabid,
     raging, ramping, ranting, rapt, raptured, rapturous, raving,
     rhapsodic, roaring, running mad, sent, storming, transported,
     uncontrollable, violent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  RAVISHED, pleadings. In indictments for rape, this technical word must be 
  introduced, for no other word, nor any circumlocution, will answer the 
  purpose. The defendant should be charged with having "feloniously ravished" 
  the prosecutrix, or woman mentioned in the indictment. Bac. Ab. Indictment, 
  G l; Com. Dig. Indictment, G 6; Hawk. B. 2, c. 25, s. 56; Cro. C. C. 37; 1 
  Hale, 628: 2 Hale, 184 Co. Litt. 184, n. p.; 2 Inst. 180; 1 East, P. C. 447. 
  The words "feloniously did ravish and carnally know," imply that the act was 
  done forcibly and against the will of the woman. 12 S. & R. 70. Vide 3 Chit. 
  Cr. Law, 812. 
  
  

















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