ecstasiatev.
rare.
a. transitive. = ecstasize v. 1.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > transport with rapture or ecstasy [verb (transitive)]
ravishc1390
rap1509
extol1526
exalta1533
reave1556
rape1566
rapt?1577
enravish1596
trance1597
to carry out1599
ecstasy1631
translate1631
elevate1634
rapture1636
ecstatize1654
enrapture1740
ecstasiate1823
ecstasize1835
1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 278 The singer..may extasiate his audience.
b. intransitive and reflexive. To go into an ecstasy.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > be rapturous or ecstatic [verb (intransitive)] > go into ecstasies
to melt awaya1400
ecstasy1636
rapturize1832
ecstasiate1838
ecstasize1854
rapture1908
to bliss out1973
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > go into ecstasies [verb (reflexive)]
ecstasize1835
ecstasiate1889
1838 J. Pardoe River & Desart I. 10 He extasiated on the Emperor, and shrugged his shoulders at all other crowned heads.
1889 Sat. Rev. 7 Dec. 662/2 What we admit that we cannot sincerely extasiate ourselves before or admire is M. Huysmans's idea of style.
1923 A. Huxley Antic Hay xv. 213 The holy Teresa's quivering and ecstasiated flank.
1957 Observer 8 Dec. 14/3 The appearance of the Chimp Father Christmas, scattering soot, is so ecstatiating [sic] that [etc.].
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