different between ecstatic vs ecstatical

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????????? (ekstatikós). Surface analysis: ecstasy +? -atic.

ecstatic (comparative more ecstatic, superlative most ecstatic)

Feeling or characterized by ecstasy.
Extremely happy.
Relating to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion.
ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance
- 1649, Henry Hammond, The Pastor's Motto
  this ecstatic fit of love and jealousy

ecstatic (plural ecstatics)

(in the plural) Transports of delight; words or actions performed in a state of ecstasy.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.11:
  I think that Dante's more abstruse ecstatics / Meant to personify the Mathematics.
A person in a state of ecstasy.

ecstatical (comparative more ecstatical, superlative most ecstatical)

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 […]
(archaic) Tending to external objects.
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