rapture

IPA: rˈæptʃɝ

Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living and deceased believers. (Usually "the rapture".)
(obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
(obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
(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.
A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
(Christianity) a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ

(dated, transitive) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
(dated, intransitive) To experience great happiness or excitement.
(transitive) To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
(rare, intransitive) To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
(uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.

Examples of "rapture" in Sentences

(The English word rapture comes from the Latin verb meaning caught up.)
This idiot believes that the rapture is an immediate event and that he is the answer.
My clergy spouse and I found ourselves defining the word "rapture" at an interfaith table.
Critics of the rapture doctrine are quick to point out that the word rapture does not appear in the Bible.
D15AV0W3D: @rapture, what was the map called? rapture: Was probably the most creative map I've ever seen in a Halo game.
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.
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.
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.