ravish
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ravish
- /ˈɹæ.vɪʃ/ UK
Rhymes with -ævɪʃ
Where it comes from
From Middle English ravyschen, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French ravis-, present participle stem of ravir (“to seize; to take away hastily”), from Vulgar Latin *rapire, from Latin rapere. See also rape.
verb ravishes · ravishing · ravished
- To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force. Again, he refers to "such ministers as discharge their ministry amiss; ravishing away the goods of the widows and fatherless; and serve themselves, not others out of those things which they have received.
- To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy. That in things that do ravish with delight, men were not Masters of themselves, nor could they remember Gallateo's Rules; and that in time of Carnival, it was lawful to commit exorbitances.
- To rape. For loe that Guest would beare her forcibly, / And meant to ravish her, that rather had to dy.
- To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.
Similar: abripe
