‖ ecstasis
(ˈɛkstəsɪs)
Also 7 extasis.
[mod.L., a. Gr. ἔκστασις; see ecstasy.]
= ecstasy n. 2, 3.
| 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. ii. v. i. v. (1651) 392 Another..like in effect to Opium, Which puts them..into a kinde of Extasis. 1656 Ridgley Pract. Physick 109 Ecstasis is either true, as when the mind is drawn away to contemplate heavenly things, or etc. 1874 H. Reynolds John Bapt. iii. §3. 201 Vision, dream, trance, ecstasis, were common incidents in the history of the Hebrew prophets. |