Raptus

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).

ee also

*Rape (disambiguation)
*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".