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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
- rape in medieval English law
- medical
- in religion, spirituality and subjective experience
- rapture, a Protestant belief about the End Times and the transport of redeemed souls
- status raptus, religious ecstasy: 21
- being "carried away" or "transported", being in good spirits, see Ecstasy (emotion)
- out-of-body experience