ecstaticaladj.
archaic.
= ecstatic adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [adjective]
ravished1549
rapt1555
rapted1567
enchanted1594
ecstatical1600
tranced1608
raptured1638
corrept1659
enravished1662
ecstatic1664
rapturous1664
sublime1667
exalted1712
enraptured1757
ecstasied1787
blissed out1973
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > rapture > [adjective]
frenetic?c1550
seraphical1581
frenetical1588
ecstatical1600
zealot1641
ecstatic1645
rapturous1656
vowed1665
seraphica1668
synagoguish1690
frantic?1715
solid1740
ecstasied1787
religionistic1842
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > [adjective] > physically stupefied > of the nature of stupor
stupid1596
ecstatical1600
ecstatic1645
1600 M. Sutcliffe Briefe Replie to Libel ii. 43 Let this lunaticall or extaticall frier..forebeare to bragge.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iii. xv. 320 At the solemne Feasts of Bellona those sacred seruants wounded each other in an extaticall furie.
1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 174 This was not Abrahams or Elihus ecstaticall sleepe.
1635 Bp. J. Hall Char. of Man 5 Davids rapture, expressed in an extaticall question of sudden wonder.
a1678 A. Woodhead Motives Holy Living (1688) 186 Graces..which some Saints of God enjoy in some extatical raptures.
1678 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 239 Extatical love..continually carries me out to Good without myself.
1682 News from France 5 If he thinks what he sayes will be reported in the Kings hearing..he grows almost Ecstatical.
Derivatives
ecˈstatically adv. in an ecstatic manner; in a state of ecstasy.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [adverb]
ravishedly1593
ecstatically1664
rapturously1664
trancedly1830
raptly1843
exaltingly1855
exaltedly1887
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > rapture > [adverb]
zealously1644
ecstatically1664
rapturously1664
1664 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix 293 Spoken rapturously and ecstatically.
1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 6/2 I would..extatically, shed the last drop of my blood for His Holiness.
1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) ii. v. 119 The Dutch discoverers..made certain of the natives most extatically drunk.
1885 Spectator 8 Aug. 1047 Blackwood..rejoices ecstatically over the downfall of the Gladstone Government.
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1667 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) ii. §14. 131 Madness is nothing else but an Ecstaticalness of the Soul.
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