ecstasy
ec·stasy (ek′stə sē)
noun pl. -·sies
- a state of being overpowered by emotion, as by joy, grief, or passion an ecstasy of delight
- a feeling of overpowering joy; great delight; rapture
- a trance, esp. one resulting from religious fervor
- Slang an illegal, mildly psychedelic derivative of amphetamine, CHNO, that slows down reactions and thought; MDMA
Etymology: ME & OFr extasie < LL(Ec) ecstasis < Gr ekstasis, a being put out of its place, distraction, trance < ek-, out + histanai, to set: see stand
Preposition: of
- delight: In the first ecstasy of delight I felt her tremble in every limb.
- love: I have also known the agony and ecstasy of love.
Converse of object
- take: The first time you take ecstasy is a bit like losing your virginity.
- include: As a result various quantities of illegal drugs including ecstasy, amphetamine and cannabis were recovered.
- use: A control group of nine men and six women who had never used ecstasy were enrolled in the study for comparison.
- experience: Every one wished to see what Rousseau had seen, to experience the same ecstasy.
- find: Tests on animals have found that ecstasy permanently reduces levels of serotonin, the chemical in the brain partly responsible for mood changes.
- try: Over half a million young people have tried ecstasy at least once.
Adjective modifier
- shamanic: But there are some periods of life where there is special growth - like shamanic ecstasy.
- mystical: They believed that through the cultivation of mystical ecstasy they could attain direct communion with God.
- divine: Still overpowered with divine ecstasy, the Master sang: O Kali, my Mother full of Bliss!
- liquid: It's known as liquid ecstasy because it has similar effects to the Class A version - and also similar dangers.
- pure: She loves nothing more than taking blood from the hotel guests and relishes in the opportunity of taking yours, in pure orgasmic ecstasy.
- sheer: You eat just for the taste, just for the sheer ecstasy of whatever it is they're going to have on that tree.
Modifies a noun
- tablet: The seizures today include the largest ever haul of ecstasy tablets in Surrey.
- pill: Test results of over sixty ecstasy pills are included.
- user: Of this sample: 59 % were primary ecstasy users 21 % were primary cocaine powder users 20 % were primary crack users.
- death: Another ecstasy death A nineteen year old girl died this week having taken ecstasy.
Noun used with modifier
What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? Life would ring the bells of Ecstasyand Forever be Itself again. See Sandburg 713:6.
Here is the ecstasy Of sun-fed wine and song: Drink! it is melody Under a kurrajong.
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy.
We sing the love of danger.Courage, rashness, and rebellion are the elements of our poetry. Hitherto literature has tended to exalt thoughtful immobility, ecstasy, and sleep, whereas we are for aggressive movement, febrile insomnia, mortal leaps, and blows with the fist.We proclaim that the world is richer for a new beautyof speed, and our praise isfor themanat the wheel. There is no beauty now save in struggle, no masterpiece can be anything but aggressive, and hence we glorify war, militarism and patriotism.
I revere the memory of Mr F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and itcame likemagic ina pint bottleit was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
Nor second he, that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of ecstasy, The secrets of th'abyss to spy. He passed the flaming bounds of place and time: 370 The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble, while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.
Who can speak of eternity without a solecism, or think thereof without an ecstasy? Time we may comprehend, 'tis but five days elder than ourselves.
What men or Gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Browse dictionary entries near ecstasy
- ECSD
- ECSC
- ECSA
- ecru
- ECRI Weekly Leading Index
- écraseur
- ecotype
- ecotone
- ecosystem
- ecosphere
- ecstatic
- ECT
- ECTF
- ecto-
- ectoblast
- ectocommensal
- ectoderm
- ectogenesis
- ectogenous
- ectomere
