noun
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(in the plural) Transports of delight; words or actions performed in a state of ecstasy.
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A person in a state of ecstasy.
adjective
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Feeling or characterized by ecstasy.
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Extremely happy.
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Relating to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion.
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ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance
Examples of ecstatic in a Sentence
We were ecstatic, but increasingly nervous.
Maria's level of happiness rose to ecstatic when he was around.
Young Rostov's ecstatic voice could be heard above the three hundred others.
And she smiled her ecstatic smile.
He remembered everything, and ecstatic pity and love for that man overflowed his happy heart.
He felt ecstatic that she heard in his music what he saw in her art.
The student was ecstatic when he found out he received the highest achievable score on the test.
As for Fred, he was downright ecstatic about a baby in his adopted family—hang the underlying circumstances of the blessed event.
Kiera's heart still did somersaults, and she felt both doubtful Evelyn would follow through and ecstatic at the prospect.
Her little feet in their white satin dancing shoes did their work swiftly, lightly, and independently of herself, while her face beamed with ecstatic happiness.
As the viewer I almost feel as ecstatic as him!
Vive l'Empereur! came those ecstatic cries.
If this story saves one persons life then I will be ecstatic.
We were very surprised, but, of course, ecstatic.
More exalted still, however, is the sudden ecstatic vision, such as was granted, for example, to Paul.
If you love colors and lace accents, the selection at Lingerie Express will make you ecstatic.
The experiences of the religious mystic are paralleled with the ecstatic vision in which the philosophical hermit sees a world of pure intelligences, where birth and decease are unknown.
But in our present state of existence the moments of this ecstatic union must be few and short; " I myself," says Plotinus simply,.
They therefore devoted themselves to examining the nature of the soul, and taught that its freedom consists in communion with God, to be achieved by absorption in a sort of ecstatic trance.
On the other hand, many customers are ecstatic about their purchases, so you'll want to know about that as well.
However, it was tough for an ecstatic Gwen to keep her news under wraps.
For many people, the idea of fading or ridding themselves of freckles is just a distant dream, while others may be ecstatic to learn that modern technology can change their spots.
I'm joyous, scared, grateful, ecstatic and half-drunk, all at the same time.
Witherspoon was ecstatic as they left the courthouse.
April 2006 Staff at Folly Farm's zoo are ecstatic this Easter, with the successful breeding of their endangered lemurs.
The soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev was ecstatic and milked all the propaganda he could from the flight.
How is spinning to a roomful of people in an ecstatic trance induced solely by your music like a spiritual experience?
The ' weep ' notes gradually build up into an ecstatic bubbling trill.
Ecstatic, Harry tucks back into the magical world for the remainder of the summer andtrots off to the competition with most of the Weasley family as well as his friend Hermione.
These men were distributed in various settlements, and their exercises were usually of an ecstatic character.
I was almost ecstatic to be in hills again.
About as far from the ecstatic immanence of realized eschatology as it's possible to get.
We'd find a group of people hopefully experiencing mild contentment, and a group of people experiencing ecstatic euphoria.
Other features reminiscent of the original barbarous rites in the primitive caverns of the East, no doubt also occupied a place in the cult; bandaging of eyes, binding of hands with the intestines of a fowl, leaping over a ditch filled with water, witnessing a simulated murder, are mentioned by the Pseudo-Augustine; and the manipulation of lights in the crypt, the administration of oaths, and the repetition of the sacred formulae, all contributed toward inducing a state of ecstatic exaltation.
From early times, detachment from the world and the practice of austerities have been regarded in India as peculiarly conducive to a spirit of godliness, and ultimately to a state of ecstatic communion with the deity.
He used prayer and fasting to deliver himself from evil enchantment; and when he saw ecstatic and mystical visions promising him the Lord's help and great usefulness in the Lord's work, he feared that these revelations might be of diabolic origin.
The young man rummaging through the boxes is ecstatic.
When I spoke to the now retired agent he was ecstatic.
Damian himself would be overjoyed, and Jule-- the third adopted brother in their threesome-- ecstatic.
On the practical side, mysticism maintains the possibility of direct intercourse with this Being of beings - intercourse, not through any external media such as an historical revelation, oracles, answers to prayer, and the like, but by a species of ecstatic transfusion or identification, in which the individual becomes in very truth " partaker of the divine nature."
Thus it encouraged an unrestrained emotionalism, rank superstition, an unhealthy asceticism, and the employment of artificial means to induce the ecstatic state.
Among the North American Indians ecstatic fasting is regularly practised.
Of ordinary immorality it took little notice, and the triumph of its cause in the 16th and 17th centuries, while producing such types of ecstatic piety as St Theresa (qv.), the Sor Mariade Jesus (Maria Agreda), (q.v.) and the Venerable Virgin Luisa de Carvajal, was accompanied by an extraordinary development of moral laxity.
As for Fred, he was downright ecstatic about a baby in his adopted family—hang the underlying circumstances of the blessed event.
Too bad his little boys weren't quite so ecstatic about it.
When she emerged, it was to the sight of a glowing, ecstatic Hannah, who sat on the edge of her bed talking to a sleepy Toby.
In acting you can go from being absolutely ecstatic about getting a role to just being broke.
Videte miraculum, for the feast of the Purification, is more than twice as long but no less euphonious, even ecstatic.
Believe me, the only person I know who's not ecstatic about the new Mac game bonanza is my wife.
The animals ' expressions seem almost ecstatic, swept away by the moment until it is too late and the deed is done.