different between ecstatical vs ecstatica

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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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From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (ekstatikós).

ecstatica (plural ecstaticas)

(obsolete or historical) A woman perceived to have a highly sensitive emotional state, or prone to quasi-mystical trances.
- 1891, Julian Ochorowicz, Joseph Fitzgerald, Mental suggestion
  The ecstaticas sometimes divined thoughts, but Father Surin must know beforehand what the thoughts were; else the thing did not work.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 256:
  She was known to the T.W.I.T. as an “ecstatica,” a classification enjoying apparently somewhat more respect than a common medium.

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