ecstasy /ˈɛkstəsi/noun 6verb 2forms 3 noun6 •Intense pleasure.This is the very ecstasy of love, / Whose violent property fordoes itself / And leads the will to desperate undertakings / As oft as any passion under heaven / That does afflict our natures. — 1599 •The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form. •A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.They were thrown into ecstasies of suspicion by finding that we possessed a French translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf. — 1938 •A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.What! are you dreaming, Son! with Eyes cast upwards / Like a mad Prophet in an Ecstasy? — 1692 •(old-fashioned) A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended, and the body is erect and inflexible.The instant I drew out my case of instruments, the lady roused herself from her ecstasy, and has never had a similar attack. — 1822 •(no longer used) Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.Come, let us leave him; in his ireful mood / Our words will but increase his ecstasy. — 1589 verb2 •To experience intense pleasure. •To cause intense pleasure in. formsecstasied · ecstasying · ecstasies
