ecrus tace ous (ekrustashius)

[ Rose and Margaret burst from their retreat with a loud laugh, and gave Obed a hearty greeting; which he, bemazed and ecstacized, returned as handsomely as he knew how. S. Judd, Margaret, ii. 11. ecstasy (ek'stā-si), n.; pl. ecstasies (-siz). [Formerly spelled variously ecstasie, ecstacy, extasy, extasie, etc.; = F. extase = Sp. extasi, extasis = Pg. extasis = It. estasi (D. extase = G. ekstase = Dan. extase = Sw.ext as, Whether what we call ecstasy be not dreaming with our eyes open, I leave to be examined. Locke. When the mind is warmed with heavenly thoughts, and wrought up into some degrees of holy ecstasy, it stays not there, but communicates these impre ions to the body. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, II. xix. The Neoplatonists, though they sometimes spoke of civic virtues, regarded the condition of ecstasy as not only transcending but including all, and that condition could only be arrived at by a pa ive life. Lecky, Europ. Morals, I. 350. 2. Overpowering emotion or exaltation, in which the mind is absorbed and the actions are controlled by the exciting subject; a sudden acce of intense feeling. Specifically-( a ) Joyful, delightful, or rapturous emotion; extravagant delight: as, the ecstasy of love; he gazed upon the scene with ecstasy. He on the tender gra Would sit, and hearken ev'n to ecstasy . Milton , Comus, 1. 625. Sweet thankful love his soul did fill With utter ecstasy of bli . William Morris , Earthly Paradise, II. 84. It is a sky of Italian April, full of sunshine and the hidden ecstasy of larks. Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 191. The ecstasies of mirth and terror which his gestures and play of countenance never failed to produce in a nursery flattered him [Garrick) quite as much as the applause of mature critics. Macaulay, Madame d'Arblay. (b) Grievous, fearful, or painful emotion; extreme agitation; distraction: as, the very ecstasy of grief; an ecstasy of fear. Better be with the dead Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restle ecstacy. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 2. Come, let us leave him in his ireful mood, Our words will but increase his ecstasy . Marlowe, Jew of Malta, i. 2. And last, the cannons' voice that shook the skies, And, as it fares in sudden ecstasies, At once bereft us both of ears and eyes. Dryden, Astræa Redux, 1. 228. 3. In med., a morbid state of the nervous system, allied to catalepsy and trance, in which the patient a umes the attitude and expre ion of rapture. Also ecstasis.-4+. Insanity; madne . That noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh; That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth, Blasted with ecstacy. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 1. ecstasy (ek'stā-si), v. t.; pret. and pp. ecstasied, ppr. ecstasying. [ The persons then made prophetical and inspired must needs have discoursed like seraphims and the most ecstasied order of intelligences. Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 31. They were so ecstasied with joy that they made the heavens ring with triumphant shouts and acclamations. J. Scott , Christian Life, I. iv. § 5.