Raptus

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Raptus is the Latin for "seized", from rapere "to seize". In Roman law the term covered many crimes of property, and women were considered property.

It may refer to:

• any literal seizure
  • confiscation
  • robbery
  • kidnapping
  • raptio, i.e. the abduction of women, also known as Frauenraub; these are the "rapes of Zeus".
  • the term for bride kidnapping in Catholic canon law; specifically, it is an impediment to marriage

• medical
  • seizure
  • epileptic seizure
  • stroke
  • convulsion
  • focal seizure
  • out-of-body experience

• in religion, spirituality and subjective experience
  • rapture, a Christian belief about the End Times and the transport of redeemed souls.
  • status raptus, religious ecstasy.
  • being "carried away" or "transported", being in good spirits, see Ecstasy (emotion).

See also

• Rape
• History of rape
• Raptor, certain birds of prey and dinosaurs, and the human creations named after them (military equipment, sporting teams, etc.)
• the artistic and poetic concept of the sublime, especially in Romantic texts, inspired rapture.
  • the literary critic Longinus and his essay "On the Sublime".
• the protagonist in Dario Fo's play Accidental Death of an Anarchist died in raptus.