单词 | ecstatic |
释义 | ecstaticadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of the nature of trance, catalepsy, mystical absorption, stupor, or frenzy (see ecstasy n. 1 – 3); accompanied by or producing these conditions. Of persons: Subject to experiences of this kind. ΘΚΠ 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 1645 J. Milton Passion vi, in Poems 18 There doth my soul..sit In pensive trance..and ecstatick fit. 1697 C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 286 The Quakers..during these Extatick years..were not in a Solid Condition. 1717 A. Pope Eloisa to Abelard in Wks. 434 In trance extatic may thy pangs be drown'd. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles ii. xxx. 75 Convulsions of extatic trance. 1821 J. Baillie Columbus in Metrical Legends xxvii. 27 The banded Priest's ecstatic art. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. 62 In the ecstatic state, individuality, memory, time, space..all vanish. 2. Of the nature of ecstasy or exalted feeling; characterized by, or producing intense emotion (now chiefly pleasurable emotion). Of persons: Subject to rapturous emotion. (See ecstasy n. 4.) 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 1664 H. More Apol. 503 Carried quite away in an Ecstatick fit of Love and Joy and transporting Admiration. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. xi. 272 Mrs. Miller..burst forth into the most extatic Thanksgivings to Heaven. View more context for this quotation 1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck i. 11 He quivers in extatic Pain. 1813 H. Smith & J. Smith Horace in London i. x. 42 Thy Newgate thefts impart ecstatic pleasure. 1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) vii. 24 She had thrown herself in ecstatic idolatry at the feet of the hero of Caprera. 1878 B. Stewart & P. G. Tait Unseen Universe i. §27. 45 Minds of a visionary and ecstatic nature. 3. absol. quasi-n. rare. ΚΠ 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. v. 50 The man, to be sure, is, at times, all upon the ecstatic. B. n. 1. One who is subject to fits of ecstasy (see ecstasy n. 2, 3). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > rapture > [noun] > person Cananaean1483 votary1576 Canaanite1611 spiritato1613 zealist1614 zelant1624 zeal1631 religionist1651 ecstatic1659 rapturist1665 religioner1808 subject1820 voteen1825 zealator1867 1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα 201 Old Hereticks and idle Ecstaticks. 1879 S. Baring-Gould Germany II. 190 A swarm of..ecstatics..spread over the country. 18.. Proctor in Cycl. Sc. I. 433 The childhood and youth of an ecstatic. 2. plural. Sarcastically used for: Utterances in a state of ecstasy or transport; transports. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken > impassioned wildfirea1400 storm1602 mouth-grenado1647 seraphics1709 mouth-grenade1714 ecstatics1821 stem-winder1875 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III xi. 8 Dante's more abstruse ecstatics Meant to personify the mathematics. 1865 Sat. Rev. 11 Nov. 616 Ecstatics again, might be spared. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1645 |
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