ecstatical

comparative more ecstatical · superlative most ecstatical

1. Synonym of ecstatic.

   No less ecstatical are the miracles of Jesus , because they have been evolved out of his Messianic consciousness

   1933, Hilarin Felder, Christ and the Critics, page 65

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   […] frequenting the Places where the Martyrs were enshrined through the pretence of some ecstatical Dreams and Visions […]

   1664, Edward Stillingfleet, A Rational Account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion

   His health and greatness consist in his being the channel through which heaven flows to earth; in short, in the fulness in which an ecstatical state takes place in him.

   1848, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Orations and Lectures, page 123

   Van Helmont conceived the blood's action as a spiritual one "which when stirred up by an ardent desire" is released as a certain ecstatical power.

   1973, Audrey B. Davis, Circulation Physiology and Medical Chemistry in England, 1650-1680, page 107

   And if we believe the chronicles, Rumi himself had experienced ecstatical raptures, was able to transgress time and space, or to be present in several places at once.

   1993, Annemarie Schimmel, The Triumphal Sun: A Study of the Works of Jalaloddin Rumi, page 311

   Synonyms: ecstatic

2. human sciencesTending to external objects.

   I find in me a great deal of ecstatical love, which continually carries me to good without myself.

   , John Norris (philosopher)

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   I have argued that the lived-body does not simply "extend" in space as a non-ecstatical thing, but rather, it "occupies and inhabits" space.

   2001, Corey Anton, Selfhood and Authenticity, page 123

   This ecstatical standpoint requires a kind of rewrapping of human beings in their constitutive envelops, links, neighbourhoods, and housing

   2009, Environment and Planning:, page 159

   Hence the ecstatical projection of Being must be made possible by some primordial way in which ecstatical temporality temporalizes.

   2017, Albert Peter Pacelli, Being and Intelligibility, page 249