English Dictionary

ravish

/ˈɹæ.vɪʃ/

verb

(obsolete or archaic) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force. / (transitive, usually passive) To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy. / (transitive, now rare) To rape.

He was ravished by the beauty of the sunset.

意味（1）

(obsolete or archaic) 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.

意味（2）

(transitive, usually passive) 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.

意味（3）

(transitive, now rare) To rape.

For loe that Guest would beare her forcibly, / And meant to ravish her, that rather had to dy.

意味（4）

(slang) To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.