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English
Adjective
ecstatical (comparative more ecstatical, superlative most ecstatical)
- Synonym of ecstatic
1664, Edward Stillingfleet, A Rational Account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion:[…] frequenting the Places where the Martyrs were enshrined through the pretence of some ecstatical Dreams and Visions […]
1848, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Orations and Lectures, page 123:His health and greatness consist in his being the channel through which heaven flows to earth; in short, in the fulness in which an ecstatical state takes place in him.
1933, Hilarin Felder, Christ and the Critics, page 65:No less ecstatical are the miracles of Jesus , because they have been evolved out of his Messianic consciousness
1973, Audrey B. Davis, Circulation Physiology and Medical Chemistry in England, 1650-1680, page 107:Van Helmont conceived the blood's action as a spiritual one "which when stirred up by an ardent desire" is released as a certain ecstatical power.
1993, Annemarie Schimmel, The Triumphal Sun: A Study of the Works of Jalaloddin Rumi, page 311:And if we believe the chronicles, Rumi himself had experienced ecstatical raptures, was able to transgress time and space, or to be present in several places at once.
- (philosophy) Tending to external objects.
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- I find in me a great deal of ecstatical love, which continually carries me to good without myself.
2001, Corey Anton, Selfhood and Authenticity, page 123:I have argued that the lived-body does not simply "extend" in space as a non-ecstatical thing, but rather, it "occupies and inhabits" space.
2009, Environment and Planning:, page 159:This ecstatical standpoint requires a kind of rewrapping of human beings in their constitutive envelops, links, neighbourhoods, and housing
2017, Albert Peter Pacelli, Being and Intelligibility, page 249:Hence the ecstatical projection of Being must be made possible by some primordial way in which ecstatical temporality temporalizes.