ecstasize

English

Etymology

Verb

ecstasize (third-person singular simple present ecstasizes, present participle ecstasizing, simple past and past participle ecstasized)

(intransitive) To go into a state of ecstasy or rapture.
(transitive) To send into a state of ecstasy.
- 1908, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, […], part third, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, Act VI, scene ii, page 175:
  The air is ecstasizing, and both sexes abandon themselves to the movement.

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