ecstatican.
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1879 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (ed. 5) ii. xix. 689 ‘Ecstaticas,’ i.e. females of strongly Emotional temperament, who fell into a state of profound Reverie.
1883 Salmon in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 521 Abbé Clocquet was able to consult an ecstatica of his acquaintance.
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n.1879- to take the white veil
- to take the will for the deed
- to take the wind out of the sails of
- to take the wire edge off
- to take the woe with the weal
- to take the word
- to take the words out of a person's mouth
- to take the worse and leave the better
- to take the worse and scorn the better
- to take the wrong pig by the ear
- to take the wrong pig by the tail
- to take their cloots
- to take things as one finds them
- to take things as they come
- to take thought
- to take through
- to take through hand
- to take through hands
- to take til heart
- to take till
- to take time
- to take time by the forehead
- to take time by the forelock
- to take time by the forelock formerly forehead
- to take time by the forelock formerly foretop