ecstasizev.
/ˈɛkstəsʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈɛkstəˌsaɪz/ 1. transitive. To throw into an ecstasy or transport of rapturous feeling; to give pleasurable excitement to. Also reflexive.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > transport with rapture or ecstasy [verb (transitive)]
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reave1556
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enravish1596
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to carry out1599
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ecstasiate1823
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > go into ecstasies [verb (reflexive)]
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1835 New Monthly Mag. 45 469 The auditors were delighted, enraptured, ecstacized.
1853 E. S. Sheppard Charles Auchester I. 54 I should have ecstasised myself ill.
1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie III. xvi. 251 Read passages from Byron..ecstasizing the lawyer's lady.
2. intransitive. To ‘go into ecstasies’.
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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
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rapture1908
to bliss out1973
1854 T. Gwynne Nanette (1864) 18 The merry old woman was ecstasizing over the size and beauty of the..fish.
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