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English
Adjective
extatic (comparative more extatic, superlative most extatic)
- Obsolete spelling of ecstatic
1749, [John Cleland], “”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: G. Fenton , →OCLC, page 194:[W]hilſt he heſitated there, the criſis of pleaſure overtook him, and the cloſe compreſſure of the vvarm ſurrounding fold, drevv from him the extatic guſh, even before mine vvas ready to meet it, kept up by the pain I had endur'd in the courſe of the engagement, from the unſufferable ſize of his vveapon, tho' it vvas not as yet in above half its length.
1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Sense and Sensibility , volume I, London: C Roworth, , and published by T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 80:His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that extatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against the horrible insensibility of the others; […]
- Misspelling of ecstatic.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French extatique.
Adjective
extatic m or n (feminine singular extatică, masculine plural extatici, feminine and neuter plural extatice)
- ecstatic
Declension