Definition of "extasy"
extasy
noun
countable and uncountable, plural extasies
Quotations
There was merit in every drawing—in the least finished, perhaps the most; her style was spirited; but had there been much less, or had there been ten times more, the delight and admiration of her two companions would have been the same. They were both in extasies. A likeness pleases every body; and Miss Woodhouse’s performances must be capital.
1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, page 89
verb
third-person singular simple present extasies, present participle extasying, simple past and past participle extasied
Quotations
The other, extasied with so great a courtesie from a stranger whom hee had not seene before , enforced him backe, to know what reason he had to be so charitable, entreating him to consider what hope he had of future satisfaction, or at least to resolue him what securitie he demanded.
1843, Francis Beaumont, Sammlung
but scarce had I drawn back mine arms, strained the outward flexure of my knee-joints, and was fixed in an apt disposure to take the corvetto primo and leap-valiant of the cour, when methought suddenly there came in and did appear before me mine ancient, most reverend and singular good friend, the rector of Saynt Andrew of S—, nearest in neighbourhood, but not of mine own cure, myself being of D— manor house in the same vicinage,—who astonished beyond measure at my so extasied gladness, demanded wherefore I did carry myself on this wise?
1843, Bernard M— (of S—), A Dream of a Queen's Reign, page 4