Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstasy.
- noun An expression of ecstatic feeling.
- noun The transporting of a person from one place to another, especially to heaven, by supernatural means.
- noun An event in the eschatology of certain Christian groups in which believers in Christ will be taken up to heaven either prior to or at the Second Coming.
- transitive verb To enrapture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To enrapture.
- noun A violent taking and carrying away; seizure; forcible removal.
- noun Violent transporting movement; a rapid carrying or going along; moving energy.
- noun A state of mental transport or exaltation; ecstasy.
- noun Ecstatic elevation of thought or feeling; lofty or soaring enthusiasm; exalted or absorbing earnestness.
- noun A manifestation of mental transport; an ecstatic utterance or action; an expression of exalted or passionate feeling of any kind; a rhapsody.
- noun An ecstasy of passionate excitement; a paroxysm or fit from excessive emotion.
- noun Synonyms Transport, bliss, exaltation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Poetic To transport with excitement; to enrapture.
- noun obsolete A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.
- noun The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.
- noun obsolete A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Extreme
pleasure ,happiness orexcitement . - noun In some forms of
fundamentalist Protestant eschatology , the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.") - noun obsolete The act of
kidnapping orabducting , especially the forceful carrying off of a woman. - noun obsolete
Rape ;ravishment ;sexual violation . - noun obsolete The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
- verb dated, intransitive to experience great happiness or excitement
- verb dated, transitive to cause to experience great happiness or excitement
- verb rare to take part in the Rapture
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a state of elated bliss
- noun a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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D15AV0W3D: @rapture, what was the map called? rapture: Was probably the most creative map I've ever seen in a Halo game.
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Critics of the rapture doctrine are quick to point out that the word rapture does not appear in the Bible.
Can America Survive? John Hagee 2010
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The word rapture is the Latin version of a phrase the Bible uses to describe the catching away of all Christians, both dead and alive, on the earth at the appointed time.
Can America Survive? John Hagee 2010
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LAHAYE: Well, first of all, the reason rapture doesn't occur is because rapture comes from a Latin word in the fourth century, Jerome when he translated it.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Is the Apocalypse Coming? - June 19, 2000 2000
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My clergy spouse and I found ourselves defining the word "rapture" at an interfaith table.
David A. Davis: The Rapture Effect: Finding The Church's Voice When It Really Matters David A. Davis 2011
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My clergy spouse and I found ourselves defining the word "rapture" at an interfaith table.
David A. Davis: The Rapture Effect: Finding The Church's Voice When It Really Matters David A. Davis 2011
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Read your bible, notice the rapture is a bunch of made-up bullshit with no mention of it in the scripture, grow up and renounce fundamentalism.
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This idiot believes that the rapture is an immediate event and that he is the answer.
Think Progress » To Justify War, Administration Pushed Claims By Known “Fabricator†2005
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(The English word rapture comes from the Latin verb meaning caught up.)
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(The English word rapture comes from the Latin verb meaning caught up.)
bilby commented on the word rapture
"Ed Kalnins is Sarah Palin's former pastor at the Wasilla Assembly of God Church which she attended for 26 years. He sees powerful signs that the end of the world is drawing nigh and assured a London Times reporter that Biblical scripture specifically mentions shortages of oil and wars for its control. When the end comes, he expects to be raptured with other righteous Christians and spared the suffering of those of us who will be left behind."
- Chip Ward, 'The Evolution of John McCain: Why He Picked Sarah Palin, Carbon Queen', 21 Sep 2008.
September 22, 2008
yarb commented on the word rapture
I too look forward to the rapture, and expect to be spared the yammering nonsense of righteous theists. Take them away, oh lord!
September 22, 2008
dbekeny commented on the word rapture
SCARECROW
The sum of the square roots of any two
sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to
the square root of the remaining side. Oh
joy, rapture! I've got a brain!
June 11, 2010
Louises commented on the word rapture
While the sudden plunge tore us out of our bodies and for an unmeasurable moment returned us to the thing that wasn't God but the aspect of him that was ours, and in which infinitely generous archetype there was neither her nor me but only the rapture that calls you home to unity with the sweetest song and painlessly burns away the straps and buckles of the suffering self. bliss. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
March 18, 2012