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2. Excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight.

He on the tender grass Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy.

Milton.

3. Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness. [Obs.]

That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy.

Shak.

Our words will but increase his ecstasy.

Marlowe.

4. (Med.) A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected. Mayne.

Ec"sta*sy, v. t. To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm. [Obs.]

The most ecstasied order of holy . . . spirits.

Jer. Taylor.

Ec*stat"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?;: cf. F. extatique. See Ecstasy, n.] 1. Pertaining to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance.

This ecstatic fit of love and jealousy.

Hammond.

2. Delightful beyond measure; rapturous; ravishing; as, ecstatic bliss or joy.

Ec*stat"ic, n. An enthusiast. [R.] Gauden.

Ec*stat"ic*al (?), a. 1. Ecstatic. Bp. Stillingfleet.

2. Tending to external objects. [R.] Norris.

Ec*stat"ic*al*ly, adv. Rapturously; ravishingly.

{ Ect- (?), Ec"to- (?) }. [Gr. &?; outside.] A combining form signifying without, outside, external.

Ec"tad (?), adv. [Ect- + L. ad towards.] (Anat.) Toward the outside or surface; -- opposed to entad. B. G. Wilder.

Ec"tal (?), a. [See Ect-.] (Anat.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the surface; outer; -- opposed to ental. B. G. Wilder.

||Ec*ta"si*a (?), n. [NL. See Ectasis.] (Med.) A dilatation of a hollow organ or of a canal.

||Ec"ta*sis (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;; 'ek out + &?; to stretch.] (Pros.) The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.

Ec*ten"tal (?), a. [Gr. &?; outside + &?; inside.] (Biol.) Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the "ectental line" or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum. C. S. Minot.

Ec"ter*on (?), n. [See Ect-.] (Anat.) The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon. -- Ec`ter*on"ic (#), a.

Ec*teth"moid (?), a. [Ect- + ethmoid.] (Anat.) External to the ethmoid; prefrontal.