extasy

plural extasies

1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of ecstasy.

   […] the ſweet youth, overpower'd with the extaſy, died away in my arms […]

   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 196

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   There was merit in every drawing—in the least finished, perhaps the most; her style was spirited; but had there been much less, or had there been ten times more, the delight and admiration of her two companions would have been the same. They were both in extasies. A likeness pleases every body; and Miss Woodhouse’s performances must be capital.

   1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 89

   Afraid almost to breathe, we English travellers surveyed with extasy this splendid landscape, so different from the sober hues and melancholy graces of our native scenery.

   1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in The Last Man. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 25

present singular third person extasies · participle present extasying · participle past extasied · past extasied

1. obsoleteObsolete form of ecstasy.

   My naked Libra in her virgin love Extasying the tender patience of the stars.

   1980, John Kasaipwalova, Sail the Midnight Sun

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   He starts in extasied surprise—There, soaring in the cloudless skies, Faith's rock in dazzling glory glows, And gathers every beam that flows From the immortal fount above, The sun of righteousness and love .

   1832, Robert Wilson Evans, The Rectory of Valehead, page 266

   The boy seems pleas'd, and here begins to break Into a language, extasied the maid;

   1833, James Shirley, The Dramatic Works and Poems, page 479

   The other, extasied with so great a courtesie from a stranger whom hee had not seene before , enforced him backe, to know what reason he had to be so charitable, entreating him to consider what hope he had of future satisfaction, or at least to resolue him what securitie he demanded.

   1843, Francis Beaumont, Sammlung

   but scarce had I drawn back mine arms, strained the outward flexure of my knee-joints, and was fixed in an apt disposure to take the corvetto primo and leap-valiant of the cour, when methought suddenly there came in and did appear before me mine ancient, most reverend and singular good friend, the rector of Saynt Andrew of S—, nearest in neighbourhood, but not of mine own cure, myself being of D— manor house in the same vicinage,—who astonished beyond measure at my so extasied gladness, demanded wherefore I did carry myself on this wise?

   1843, Bernard M— (of S—), A Dream of a Queen's Reign, page 4