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
 * rape in medieval English law
 * medical
 * seizure
 * epileptic seizure
 * stroke
 * convulsion
 * focal seizure
 * 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