Meanings (ES + gloss)
éxtasi (disused) • éxtasis
Intense pleasure.
He loved me well, and oft would beg me sing; / Which when I did, he on the tender grass / Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy,
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 ou…
éxtasi (disused) • éxtasis
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.
an ecstasy of remorse
éxtasi (disused) • éxtasis
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?
éxtasis
The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.
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