Rapture, 1) transport, delirium: “her brain-sick --s cannot distaste the goodness of a quarrel,” Troil. II, 2, 122. “in this r. I shall surely speak the thing I shall repent,” III, 2, 138.
2) a syncope, a trance: “your prattling nurse into a r. lets her baby cry,” Cor. II, 1, 223 (rupture proposed by some for emendation. But cf. the German: lässt es schreien, dass es wegbleibt).*
3) violent seizure (?): “spite of all the r. of the sea, this jewel holds his building on my arm,” Per. II, 1, 161 (O. Edd. rupture).
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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