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ecˈstatical, a. arch.
[f. ecstatic + -al1.]
= ecstatic.
1600O. E. Repl. Libel i. ii. 43 Let this lunaticall or extaticall frier..forebeare to bragge. 1613Purchas Pilgr. iii. xv. 320 At the solemne Feasts of Bellona those sacred seruants wounded each other in an extaticall furie. 1612–5Bp. Hall Contempl. N.T. iv. xii. (1796) III. 297 This was not Abraham's or Elihu's extatical sleep. a1656Bp. Hall in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxliv. 3 David's rapture, expressed in an ecstatical question of sudden wonder. a1678Woodhead Holy Living (1881) 186 Graces..which some saints of God enjoy in extatical..raptures. 1678Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 239 Extatical love..continually carries me out to Good without myself. 1682News fr. France 5 If he thinks what he sayes will be reported in the Kings hearing..he grows almost Ecstatical.
Hence ecˈstatically adv., in an ecstatic manner; in a state of ecstasy. Also † ecˈstaticalness, ecstatic condition.
1664H. More Synopsis Proph. 293 Spoken rapturously and ecstatically. 1667― Div. Dial. ii. §14 (1713) 131 Madness is nothing else but an Ecstaticalness of the Soul. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 63 The Dutch discoverers..made certain of the natives most ecstatically drunk. 1824–9Landor Imag. Conv. (1846) II. 6, I would..extatically shed the last drop of my blood for His Holiness. 1885Spectator 8 Aug. 1047 Blackwood..rejoices ecstatically over the downfall of the Gladstone Government. |