Rapture

  1. Proper noun.  (Christianity) a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ.
  2. Noun.  Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
  3. Noun.  In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.").
  4. Noun.  (obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
  5. Noun.  (obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
  6. 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.
  7. Verb.  (dated, intransitive) to experience great happiness or excitement.
  8. Verb.  (dated, transitive) to cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
  9. Verb.  (rare) to take part in the Rapture.

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This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.