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
- seizure
- epileptic seizure
- stroke
- convulsion
- focal seizure
- out-of-body experience
- 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).