Meanings
plural ecstaticas
- historicalobsoleteA woman perceived to have a highly sensitive emotional state, or prone to quasi-mystical trances.
The ecstaticas sometimes divined thoughts, but Father Surin must know beforehand what the thoughts were; else the thing did not work.
1891, Julian Ochorowicz, Joseph Fitzgerald, Mental suggestion1 more example
She was known to the T.W.I.T. as an “ecstatica,” a classification enjoying apparently somewhat more respect than a common medium.
2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 256
Origin
- Ancient Greekἐκστατικός
- New Latinecstatica
- Englishecstatica
From New Latin ecstatica, from Ancient Greek ἐκστατικός (ekstatikós).
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