Crossword clues for raptus
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context pathology English) A seizure. 2 A state of rapture.
WordNet
Wikipedia
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
- 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).
Usage examples of "raptus".
On the other side was a Wurm civilization of savagery and tyranny, lorded over by a general called Raptus, who wanted nothing more than for his sorcerers to tear down the Veil so that he and his army could invade Terra and destroy the world of mages.
All the Wurm serving Raptus are here now, and they would never return there for fear that they would become trapped again.
Once removed from the immediate threat of Raptus and his legions, we can begin to plot our return to Arcanum.
Grandmaster of the Order of Alhazred and Raptus and his Wurm legions would still be locked away in Draconae.
With Verlis, head of that clan, the Cade boy brought word that Raptus was a hate-filled, merciless creature, and that he was attempting to shatter the Divide and invade.
For the Wurm were survivors, and this harsh land had only served to make them stronger, and in the case of Raptus and those who followed him, angrier.
Now that he had borne witness to this, he had begun to believe that with the Malleum, the mages of Terra truly stood a chance against Raptus and his army.
Timothy admired the city as well, trying hard not to think about what would happen if Raptus and his army attacked.
General Raptus watched with uneasy fascination as the device that the mages called the Burrower dug through the first layers of dirt and rock, and he was glad that he had ordered his raiders to keep some of the mages alive.
It was how all humans should behave in the presence of their superiors, Raptus thought.
And if everything went according to plan, Raptus would have much to share with him.
But then Raptus realized that the voices were coming from the eggthe Spawn was speaking to him.
The shell shattered, exposing the roiling contents of the Spawn of Wrath, bathing Raptus in the collected hatred of a race long gone.
Spawn of Wrathif that is indeed what Raptus was searching forhow can we oppose such power?
He had encountered Raptus in the hellish realm of Draconae, where he had briefly been imprisoned in the volcanic city of the Wurm.