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Raptus
Latin legal term
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
- being "carried away" or "transported", being in good spirits, see Ecstasy (emotion)
- out-of-body experience
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