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ECSTASY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
Synonyms:
Adam; cristal; disco biscuit; ecstasy; go; hug drug; X; XTC
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("ecstasy" is a kind of...):
MDMA; methylenedioxymethamphetamine (a stimulant drug that is chemically related to mescaline and amphetamine and is used illicitly for its euphoric and hallucinogenic effects; it was formerly used in psychotherapy but in 1985 it was declared illegal in the United States)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
Example:
listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture
Synonyms:
ecstasy; exaltation; rapture; raptus; transport
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("ecstasy" is a kind of...):
emotional state; spirit (the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection))
Derivation:
ecstatic (feeling great rapture or delight)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A state of elated bliss
Synonyms:
ecstasy; rapture
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("ecstasy" is a kind of...):
bliss; blissfulness; cloud nine; seventh heaven; walking on air (a state of extreme happiness)
Derivation:
ecstatic (feeling great rapture or delight)
Context examples:
It had then filled me with a sublime ecstasy that gave wings to the soul and allowed it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Here Marianne, in an ecstasy of indignation, clapped her hands together, and cried, "Gracious God! can this be possible!"
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“In four rounds!” he kept repeating in a sort of an ecstasy.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of ecstasy.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He was in an ecstasy, dreaming dreams and reconstructing the scenes just past.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited—waited with beating heart.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The men outside shouted and applauded, while Beauty Smith, in an ecstasy of delight, gloated over the ripping and mangling performed by White Fang.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Half an hour from now, when I shall again and forever reindue that hated personality, I know how I shall sit shuddering and weeping in my chair, or continue, with the most strained and fearstruck ecstasy of listening, to pace up and down this room (my last earthly refuge) and give ear to every sound of menace.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Fanny turned farther into the window; and Miss Crawford had only time to say, in a pleasant manner, I fancy Miss Price has been more used to deserve praise than to hear it; when, being earnestly invited by the Miss Bertrams to join in a glee, she tripped off to the instrument, leaving Edmund looking after her in an ecstasy of admiration of all her many virtues, from her obliging manners down to her light and graceful tread.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
They were both in ecstasies.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
