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The Rapture—Pure Fiction
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rap⋅tured

  [rap-cherd]
–adjective Theology.
(esp. of saints) experiencing religious ecstasy as a result of one's faith.
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Origin:
1675–85; rapture + -ed 2
The Rapture—Pure Fiction
The Rapture is a Fiction of Men Prove The Truth With Your Bible!
realtruth.org/rapture_disproven

rap⋅ture

  [rap-cher] noun, verb -tured, -tur⋅ing.
–noun
1. ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy.
2. Often, raptures. an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight.
3. the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence.
4. the Rapture, Theology. the experience, anticipated by some fundamentalist Christians, of meeting Christ midway in the air upon his return to earth.
5. Archaic. the act of carrying off.
–verb (used with object)
6. to enrapture.
Origin:
1590–1600; rapt + -ure

Related forms:
rap⋅ture⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
1. bliss, beatitude; transport, exaltation. See ecstasy.

Antonyms:
1. misery.
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rap·ture   (rāp'chər)   
n.  

  1. The state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstasy.

  2. An expression of ecstatic feeling. Often used in the plural.

  3. The transporting of a person from one place to another, especially to heaven.

tr.v.   rap·tured, rap·tur·ing, rap·tures
To enrapture.

[Obsolete French, abduction, carrying off, from rapt, carried away, from Old French rat, from Latin raptus; see rapt.]
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Word Origin & History

rapture 
1600, "act of carrying off," from M.Fr. rapture, from M.L. raptura "seizure, rape, kidnapping," from L. raptus "a carrying off" (see rapt). Originally of women and cognate with rape (v.). Sense of "spiritual ecstasy" first recorded 1629.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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