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ecstatic, a. and n.|ɛkˈstætɪk|
[ad. Gr. ἐκστατικός, f. stem ἐκστα-. See ecstasy n. and -ic.]
A. adj.
1. Of the nature of trance, catalepsy, mystical absorption, stupor, or frenzy (see ecstasy n. 1, 2, 3); accompanied by or producing these conditions. Of persons: Subject to experiences of this kind.
c1630Milton Passion 42 There doth my soul..sit In pensive trance..and ecstatic fit. 1697C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 286 The Quakers..during these Extatick years..were not in a Solid Condition. 1718Pope Eloisa 339 In trance extatic may thy pangs be drowned. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles ii. xxx, Convulsions of extatic trance. 1821J. Baillie Metr. Leg., Colum. xxvii. 27 The banded Priest's ecstatic art. 1856R. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 62 In the ecstatic state, individuality, memory, time, space..all vanish.
2. Of the nature of ecstasy or exalted feeling; characterized by, or producing intense emotion (now chiefly pleasurable emotion). Of persons: Subject to rapturous emotion. (See ecstasy n. 4.)
1664H. More Apology 503 Carried quite away in an Ecstatick fit of Love and Joy and transporting Admiration. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xviii. xi, Mrs. Miller..burst forth into the most ecstatic thanksgivings to Heaven. 1762Falconer Shipwr. i. 260 He quivers in extatic pain. 1813H. & J. Smith Horace in Lond. 42 Thy Newgate thefts impart ecstatic pleasure. 1870Disraeli Lothair vii. 24 She had thrown herself in ecstatic idolatry at the feet of the hero of Caprera. 1878Tait & Stewart Unseen Univ. i. §27. 45 Minds of a visionary and ecstatic nature.
3. absol. quasi-n. rare.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. 25 The man indeed at times is all upon the ecstatic.
B. n.
1. One who is subject to fits of ecstasy (see ecstasy n. 2, 3).
1659Gauden Tears of Ch. 201 (D.) Old Hereticks and idle Ecstaticks. 1879Baring-Gould Germany II. 190 A swarm of..ecstatics..spread over the country. 18..Proctor in Cycl. Sc. I. 433 The childhood and youth of an ecstatic.
2. pl. Sarcastically used for: Utterances in a state of ecstasy or transport; transports.
1819Byron Juan iii. xi, Dante's more abstruse ecstatics Meant to personify the mathematics. 1865Sat. Rev. 11 Nov. 616 Ecstatics again, might be spared. |