verb

• (archaic or literary) 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."
• (transitive, usually passive voice) 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."
• (transitive, dated) To rape.
  "For loe that Guest would beare her forcibly, / And meant to ravish her, that rather had to dy."
• (informal) To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.