ecstatic

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1. Feeling or characterized by ecstasy.

   The moment of ejaculation in mammiferous animals is accompanied by universal excitement of the whole body, a kind of slight convulsion, which terminates in a comatose or exstatic state.

   1837, Michael Ryan, The Philosophy of Marriage, in Its Social, Moral, and Physical Relations; with an Account of the Diseases of the Genito-urinary Organs which Impair or Destroy the Reproductive Function; and Induce a Variety of Complaints; with the Physiology of Generation in the Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms …, London: John Churchill, Princes' Street, Soho, →OCLC, page 191

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   [W]hilſt he heſitated there, the criſis of pleaſure overtook him, and the cloſe compreſſure of the vvarm ſurrounding fold, drevv from him the extatic guſh, even before mine vvas ready to meet it, kept up by the pain I had endur'd in the courſe of the engagement, from the unſufferable ſize of his vveapon, tho' it vvas not as yet in above half its length.

   Fanny Hill

   1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 194

   Synonyms: delirious, rapturous

2. Extremely happy.

   Bobbie was dancing round the room on the tips of her toes uttering animal cries, apparently ecstatic in their nature.

   1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC

   Synonyms: blissful, elated, euphoric, joyful, joyous, air-headed, blissed out, blissful

3. Relating to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion.

   ecstatic gaze    ecstatic trance

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   this ecstatic fit of love and jealousy

   1649, Henry Hammond, The Pastor's Motto

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1. in pluralTransports of delight; words or actions performed in a state of ecstasy.

   I think that Dante's more abstruse ecstatics / Meant to personify the Mathematics.

   1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.11

2. A person in a state of ecstasy.

   If there is anything that can be called protoscripture, it is surely the utterances of ecstatics, prophets and seers...

   1993, William A. Graham, Beyond the written word: oral aspects of scripture in the history of religion, Cambridge University Press, page 65