ecstasy

Intense pleasure.countableuncountable

• 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.
• 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.countableuncountable

• an ecstasy of remorse

A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.countableuncountable

• What! are you dreaming, Son! with Eyes cast upwards / Like a mad Prophet in an Ecstasy?

Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.countableobsoleteuncountable

• Come, let us leave him; in his ireful mood / Our words will but increase his ecstasy.

The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.countableslanguncountable

A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended, and the body is erect and inflexible.countabledateduncountable

• The instant I drew out my case of instruments, the lady roused herself from her ecstasy, and has never had a similar attack.
• In ecstasy the mind is absorbed with some fixed idea, generally of a religious character, and the patient becomes oblivious of surrounding events and objects.

To experience intense pleasure.intransitive

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.