ecstasy

• WordNet 3.6
  • n ecstasy street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
  • n ecstasy a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens"
  • n ecstasy a state of elated bliss
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• • Ecstasy (Med) A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected.
  • Ecstasy Excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight. "He on the tender grass
    Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy ."
  • Ecstasy The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries. "Like a mad prophet in an ecstasy .""This is the very ecstasy of love."
  • v. t Ecstasy To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm. "The most ecstasied order of holy . . . spirits."
  • Ecstasy Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness. "That unmatched form and feature of blown youth
    Blasted with ecstasy .""Our words will but increase his ecstasy ."
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• • n ecstasy A state in which the mind is exalted or liberated as it were from the body; a state in which the functions of the senses are suspended by the contemplation of some extraordinary or supernatural object, or by absorption in some overpowering idea, most frequently of a religious nature; entrancing rapture or transport.
  • n ecstasy Overpowering emotion or exaltation, in which the mind is absorbed and the actions are controlled by the exciting subject; a sudden access of intense feeling. Specifically— Joyful, delightful, or rapturous emotion; extravagant delight: as, the ecstasy of love; he gazed upon the scene with ecstasy.
  • n ecstasy Grievous, fearful, or painful emotion; extreme agitation; distraction: as, the very ecstasy of grief; an ecstasy of fear.
  • n ecstasy In medicine, a morbid state of the nervous system, allied to catalepsy and trance, in which the patient assumes the attitude and expression of rapture. Also ecstasis.
  • n ecstasy Insanity; madness.
  • ecstasy To fill with rapture or enthusiasm.
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• • n Ecstasy ek′sta-si a word applied to states of mind marked by temporary mental alienation and altered or diminished consciousness: excessive joy: enthusiasm, or any exalted feeling
  • v.t Ecstasy to fill with joy
  • n Ecstasy one given to ecstasy: something spoken in a state of ecstasy
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• Jean Cocteau

  

  “If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.”
• W. Somerset Maugham

  

  “Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.”
• Georges Bataille

  

  “Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.”
• Orson Welles

  

  “Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.”
• John Updike

  

  “Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.”
• Walter Benjamin

  

  “Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.”

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