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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ECSTAT'IC
ECSTAT'ICAL, a. Arresting the mind; suspending the senses; entrancing.
In pensive trance, and anguish, and ecstatic fit.
1. Rapturous; transporting; ravishing; delightful beyond measure; as ecstatic bliss or joy.
2. Tending to external objects. [Not used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: feeling great rapture or delight [syn: ecstatic, enraptured, rapturous, rapt, rhapsodic]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Medieval Latin ecstaticus, from Greek ekstatikos, from existanai Date: 1590 of, relating to, or marked by ecstasy • ecstatically adverb II. noun Date: 1659 one that is subject to ecstasies

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. 1 in a state of ecstasy. 2 very enthusiastic or excited (was ecstatic about his new job). 3 producing ecstasy; sublime (an ecstatic embrace). --n. a person subject to (usu. religious) ecstasy. Derivatives: ecstatically adv. Etymology: F extatique f. Gk ekstatikos (as ECSTASY)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ecstatic Ec*stat"ic, n. An enthusiast. [R.] --Gauden.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ecstatic Ec*stat"ic, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ?: cf. F. extatique. See Ecstasy, n.] 1. Pertaining to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance. This ecstatic fit of love and jealousy. --Hammond. 2. Delightful beyond measure; rapturous; ravishing; as, ecstatic bliss or joy.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you are ecstatic, you feel very happy and full of excitement. His wife gave birth to their first child, and he was ecstatic about it... They were greeted by the cheers of an ecstatic crowd. = delirious ADJ • ecstatically We are both ecstatically happy. ADV 2. You can use ecstatic to describe reactions that are very enthusiastic and excited. For example, if someone receives an ecstatic reception or an ecstatic welcome, they are greeted with great enthusiasm and excitement. They gave an ecstatic reception to the speech... = rapturous ADJ: ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a.; (also ecstatical) 1. Entrancing, suspending the senses. 2. Resulting from or given in trance or ecstasy. 3. Transporting, ravishing, rapturous, surpassingly or supremely delightful, enrapturing, beatific.

Moby Thesaurus

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