ecstasiate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   rare: to fill someone with ecstasy or cause someone to become ecstatic

   The final chorus seemed to ecstasiate the audience.

2. 2
   verb

   rare: to enter an ecstatic state or speak rapturously

   The critic ecstasiated over every detail of the performance.

A rare nineteenth-century verb formed from ecstasy with -ate, probably influenced by French s'extasier, 'to go into ecstasies.' It can be transitive, meaning to enrapture, or intransitive, meaning to become ecstatic or speak with rapture.

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