noun

• (Christianity with the) Alternative letter-case form of Rapture.
  "In the last week, believers have linked Charlie Kirk’s assassination to the rapture theory: some on TikTok have suggested that Kirk, who in death became a martyr for Christian nationalists and whose memorial service veered into religious revival territory, could be resurrected during 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.
  "That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash / With headlong rapture."

verb

• (dated, transitive) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
  "She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart."
• (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.
  ""If she's raptured," Ellen said to them on the fifth night after Marylee's disappearance, as they sat on the roof of the building on their old beanbags and rusting garden furniture hauled up from the Museum, "if that's what happened to her, then […]""
• (rare, intransitive) To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.

name

• (Christianity) In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, a prophesied sudden removal of Christian believers from the Earth before the Tribulation or simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus Christ.
  "The end of the world will be at exactly 6 p.m. on May 21, 2011, says Camping, who along with his organization, Family Radio, are behind those billboards across the country forecasting the Rapture this Saturday. The Rapture, the Last Days, Armageddon and the Final Days of Judgment are all interchangeable. It's when God will destroy the Earth to show his love for humanity."