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ecstasy
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)
- 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,
- A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.
- 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?
- 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, Act IV, Scene I, [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.
- c. 1590, Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, Act I, [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
- (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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Mayne to this entry?)
Related terms
- ecstatic
Translations
Verb
ecstasy (third-person singular simple present ecstasies, present participle ecstasying, simple past and past participle ecstasied)
- (intransitive) To experience intense pleasure.
- (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)
- ecstasy (MDMA, recreational drug)
Portuguese
Noun
ecstasy m (usually uncountable, plural ecstasys)
- ecstasy (drug)
ecstasy From the web:
intoxication
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?nt?ks??ke???n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?nt?ks??ke???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
- Hyphenation: in?tox?i?ca?tion
Noun
intoxication (countable and uncountable, plural intoxications)
- A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.
- He suffered acute intoxication from the combined effects of several drugs.
- The state of being intoxicated or drunk.
- Synonyms: inebriation, ebriety, drunkenness
- The act of intoxicating or making drunk.
- A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness.
Translations
French
Etymology
From intoxiquer +? -tion
Pronunciation
Noun
intoxication f (plural intoxications)
- poisoning
- the act of spreading false information or propaganda
Usage notes
In French, the word intoxication is used more broadly than in English to refer to the poisoning of an organism by a variety of means such as herbicide or poisonous gas as well as by alcohol or narcotics.
Derived terms
- intoxication alimentaire
Further reading
- “intoxication” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Interlingua
Noun
intoxication (uncountable)
- intoxication
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