- 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 forbride 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, seeEcstasy (emotion) .ee also
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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".
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