Also 7 extasis. [mod.L., a. Gr. ἔκστασις; see ECSTASY.]
= ECSTASY sb. 2, 3.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., II. v. I. v. (1651), 392. Another … like in effect to Opium, Which puts them for a time into a kinde of Extasis.
1656. Ridgley, Pract. Physick, 109. Ecstasis is either true, as when the mind is drawn away to contemplate heavenly things, or [etc.].
1874. H. R. Reynolds, John Bapt., iii. § 3. 201. Vision, dream, trance, ecstasis, were common incidents in the history of the Hebrew prophets.
