[ˈraptʃə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a feeling of intense pleasure or joy
(e.g: Leonora listened with rapture)

- (according to some millenarian teaching) the transporting of believers to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ
(e.g: thousands of Christians gathered outside Rochester and other cities, awaiting the Rapture)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 16th century (in the sense ‘seizing and carrying off’): from obsolete French, or from medieval Latin raptura ‘seizing’, partly influenced by rapt

[ˈraptʃə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- (according to some millenarian teaching) transport (a believer) from earth to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ
(e.g: people will be raptured out of automobiles as they are driving along)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 16th century (in the sense ‘seizing and carrying off’): from obsolete French, or from medieval Latin raptura ‘seizing’, partly influenced by rapt