ecstasize, v.
(ˈɛkstəsaɪz)
[f. ecstas-y + -ize. Cf. ecstasy v.]
1. trans. To throw into an ecstasy or transport of rapturous feeling; to give pleasurable excitement to. Also refl.
| 1835 New Month. Mag. XLV. 469 The auditors were delighted, enraptured, ecstacized. 1853 E. S. Sheppard Ch. Auchester I. 54, I should have ecstasised myself ill. 1879 G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie III. xvi. 251 Read passages from Byron..ecstasizing the lawyer's lady. |
2. intr. To ‘go into ecstasies’.
| 1854 T. Gwynne Nanette (1864) 18 The merry old woman was ecstasizing over the size and beauty of the..fish. |