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panic
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?pæn?k/
- Rhymes: -æn?k
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French panique, from Ancient Greek ??????? (panikós, “pertaining to Pan”), from ??? (Pán, “Pan”). Pan is the god of woods and fields who was the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.
Alternative forms
- panick (obsolete)
Adjective
panic (comparative more panic, superlative most panic)
- (now rare) Pertaining to the god Pan.
- Of fear, fright etc: sudden or overwhelming (attributed by the ancient Greeks to the influence of Pan).
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, pp.57-8:
- All things were there in a disordered confusion, and in a confused furie, untill such time as by praiers and sacrifices they had appeased the wrath of their Gods. They call it to this day, the Panike terror.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p.537:
- At that moment a flight of birds passed close overhead, and at the whirr of their wings a panic fear seized her.
- 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II:
- Terrified, he looked down from the skies / At the waves, and panic blackness filled his eyes.
- , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, pp.57-8:
Noun
panic (countable and uncountable, plural panics)
- Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals.
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact.
- 1994, Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus Chapter 2
- With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
- (finance, economics) Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices.
- (computing) A kernel panic or system crash.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
panic (third-person singular simple present panics, present participle panicking, simple past and past participle panicked)
- (intransitive) To feel overwhelming fear.
- (transitive) To cause somebody to panic.
- (by extension, computing, intransitive) To crash.
- (by extension, computing, transitive) To cause the system to crash.
Translations
Related terms
- panicky
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin panicum.
Noun
panic
- (botany) A plant of the genus Panicum.
Synonyms
- panicgrass, panic grass
Anagrams
- cap'in, incap
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?pa??t?s]
- Hyphenation: pa?nic
Noun
panic m anim (feminine panna)
- male virgin
Declension
Related terms
- panna f
- pán m
- paní f
Further reading
- panic in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- panic in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin panicum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.nik/
Noun
panic m (plural panics)
- (botany) Refers to several thorny shrubs; cockspur, panic, panicgrass
Synonyms
- pied-de-coq
- patte de poule
- crête de coq
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pa?it?s/
Noun
panic m (genitive singular panica, nominative plural panici, genitive plural panicov, declension pattern of chlap)
- male virgin
Declension
Derived terms
- panický
- panicky
- panickos?, panictvo
Related terms
- panna f
Further reading
- panic in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
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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)
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