ECSTASY
\ˈɛkstəsi], \ˈɛkstəsi], \ˈɛ_k_s_t_ə_s_i]\
Definitions of ECSTASY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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Excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight.
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Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness.
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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.
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To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight.
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Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness.
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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.
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To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm.
By Noah Webster.
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A nervous affection resembling catalepsy, in which there is mental exaltation, with more or less sensory anesthesia and a rapturous expression.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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An extraordinary state of feeling, in which the mind stands out of or is detached from sensible things: excessive joy: enthusiasm.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A state of mind in which the functions of the senses are suspended by the contemplation of some extraordinary or supernatural object; rapture or a degree of delight that arrests the whole mind; enthusiasm or excessive elevation and absorption of mind; a species of catalepsy, when the person remembers, after the paroxysm is over, the ideas he had during the fit.
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To fill with rapture or enthusiasm.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Excessive joy; extreme delight; a state of the body in which the functions of the senses are suspended; a trance.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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