raptures 1. Ecstatic joys or delights; joyful ecstasies. 2. Utterances or expressions of ecstatic delights. 3. The carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence. 4. In theology, the experiences, anticipated by some fundamentalist Christians, of meeting Christ midway in the air upon His return to earth. 5. Archaic, the act of carrying... Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1830/2