ecstatical

ecstatical

English

Adjective

ecstatical (comparative more ecstatical, superlative most ecstatical)

1. Synonym of 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 […]

   • 1848, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Orations and Lectures, page 123:

     His health and greatness consist in his being the channel through which heaven flows to earth; in short, in the fulness in which an ecstatical state takes place in him.

   • 1933, Hilarin Felder, Christ and the Critics, page 65:

     No less ecstatical are the miracles of Jesus , because they have been evolved out of his Messianic consciousness

   • 1973, Audrey B. Davis, Circulation Physiology and Medical Chemistry in England, 1650-1680, page 107:

     Van Helmont conceived the blood's action as a spiritual one "which when stirred up by an ardent desire" is released as a certain ecstatical power.

   • 1993, Annemarie Schimmel, The Triumphal Sun: A Study of the Works of Jalaloddin Rumi, page 311:

     And if we believe the chronicles, Rumi himself had experienced ecstatical raptures, was able to transgress time and space, or to be present in several places at once.

2. (philosophy) Tending to external objects.
   • (Can we date this quote?), John Norris (philosopher)

     I find in me a great deal of ecstatical love, which continually carries me to good without myself.

   • 2001, Corey Anton, Selfhood and Authenticity, page 123:

     I have argued that the lived-body does not simply "extend" in space as a non-ecstatical thing, but rather, it "occupies and inhabits" space.

   • 2009, Environment and Planning:, page 159:

     This ecstatical standpoint requires a kind of rewrapping of human beings in their constitutive envelops, links, neighbourhoods, and housing

   • 2017, Albert Peter Pacelli, Being and Intelligibility, page 249:

     Hence the ecstatical projection of Being must be made possible by some primordial way in which ecstatical temporality temporalizes.