different between ecstasy vs entrance

English

Alternative forms

• extasy (obsolete)
• ecstacy (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French estaise (“ecstasy, rapture”), from Latin ecstasis, from Ancient Greek ???????? (ékstasis), from ???????? (exíst?mi, “I displace”), from ?? (ek, “out”) and ?????? (híst?mi, “I stand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k.st?.si/

Noun

ecstasy (countable and uncountable, plural ecstasies)

1. Intense pleasure.

   Antonym: agony

   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 1, [1]

     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.

   • 1634, John Milton, Comus, lines 623-5, [2]

     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,

2. A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.
3. A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
   • 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, Act IV, Scene I, [4]

     What! are you dreaming, Son! with Eyes cast upwards / Like a mad Prophet in an Ecstasy?

4. (obsolete) Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.
   • c. 1590, Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, Act I, [5]

     Come, let us leave him; in his ireful mood / Our words will but increase his ecstasy.

   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1, [6]

     And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, / That suck'd the honey of his music vows, / Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, / Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh; / That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth / Blasted with ecstasy.

5. (slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.

   Synonyms: MDMA, molly, (modern vernacular) E, eckie, ecky, XTC, X, thizz, (obsolete) empathy

6. (medicine, dated) A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended; the body is erect and inflexible; but the pulse and breathing are not affected.

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Related terms

• ecstatic

Translations

Verb

ecstasy (third-person singular simple present ecstasies, present participle ecstasying, simple past and past participle ecstasied)

1. (intransitive) To experience intense pleasure.
2. (transitive) To cause intense pleasure in.

Anagrams

• Cassety, cytases

Dutch

Alternative forms

• xtc

Etymology

Borrowed from English ecstasy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k.st?.si/, /??k.sti.si/
• Hyphenation: ec?sta?sy

Noun

ecstasy m (uncountable)

1. ecstasy (MDMA, recreational drug)

Portuguese

Noun

ecstasy m (usually uncountable, plural ecstasys)

1. ecstasy (drug)

English

Alternative forms

• entraunce

Etymology 1

From Middle French entrance (“entry”). Replaced native Middle English ingang (“entrance, admission”), from Old English ingang (“ingress, entry, entrance”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: ?n'tr?ns, IPA^(key): /??n.t??ns/

Noun

entrance (countable and uncountable, plural entrances)

1. (countable) The action of entering, or going in.

2. The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.

3. (countable) The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.

4. (uncountable) The right to go in.

5. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.

   a difficult entrance into business

   • 1794, Henry Hunter, Sacred Biography

     in the entrance of the history of this great patriarch

6. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.

7. (nautical) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.

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8. (nautical) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.

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9. (music) When a musician starts playing or singing, entry.

Synonyms

• ingang

Antonyms

• exit

Translations

Etymology 2

From en- + trance (“daze”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?t?æns/
• Rhymes: -æns

Verb

entrance (third-person singular simple present entrances, present participle entrancing, simple past and past participle entranced)

1. (transitive) To delight and fill with wonder.
   • 1996, Tab Murphy, Irene Mecchi, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, and Jonathan Roberts, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (film)

     See the finest girl in France make an entrance to entrance...

2. (transitive) To put into a trance.

Translations

Anagrams

• centenar, enneract, rectenna

Middle French

Etymology

First attested in late Old French, from entrer +? -ance.

Noun

entrance f (plural entrances)

1. entrance (place where entry is possible)
2. permission to enter

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (entrance)
• “entrance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Verb

entrance

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of entrançar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of entrançar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of entrançar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of entrançar