ecstasy

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɛkstəsi/    美 /ˈɛkstəsi/|/ˈekstəsi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Intense pleasure. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
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  2. A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control. countable,uncountable
    — an ecstasy of remorse
  3. A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation. countable,uncountable
    — What! are you dreaming, Son! with Eyes cast upwards / Like a mad Prophet in an Ecstasy?
  4. Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Come, let us leave him; in his ireful mood / Our words will but increase his ecstasy.
  5. The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form. countable,slang,uncountable
  6. A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended, and the body is erect and inflexible. countable,dated,uncountable
    — The instant I drew out my case of instruments, the lady roused herself from her ecstasy, and has never had a similar attack.
动词 v.
  1. To experience intense pleasure. intransitive
  2. To cause intense pleasure in. transitive
    — Ali Agha jumped up, seized the visitor by the shoulder, compelled him to sit down, and, ecstasied by the old man's horror at the scene, filled a tumbler, and with the usual grotesque grimaces insisted upon his drinking it.

词形变化

ecstasies plural ecstacy alternative,obsolete exstacy alternative,obsolete exstasy alternative,obsolete extacy alternative,obsolete extasy alternative,obsolete ecstasies present,singular,third-person ecstasying participle,present ecstasied participle,past ecstasied past ecstacy alternative,obsolete exstacy alternative,obsolete exstasy alternative,obsolete extacy alternative,obsolete extasy alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
ecstasize liquid ecstasy
相关词
ecstatic

词源

词源 1
From Old French estaise (“ecstasy, rapture”), from Latin ecstasis, from Ancient Greek ἔκστασις (ékstasis), from ἐξίστημι (exístēmi, “to displace”), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) and ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to stand”).
词源 2
From Old French estaise (“ecstasy, rapture”), from Latin ecstasis, from Ancient Greek ἔκστασις (ékstasis), from ἐξίστημι (exístēmi, “to displace”), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) and ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to stand”).
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