1. trans. To throw into an ecstasy or transport of rapturous feeling; to give pleasurable excitement to. Also refl.
1835. New Month. Mag., XLV. 469. The auditors were delighted, enraptured, ecstacized.
1853. Miss E. S. Sheppard, Ch. Auchester, I. 54. I should have ecstasised myself ill.
1879. G. Macdonald, Sir Gibbie, III. xvi. 251. Read passages from Byron, Shelley, and Moore—chiefly from ‘The Loves of the Angels’ of the last, ecstasizing the lawyer’s lady.
2. intr. To ‘go into ecstasies.’
1854. T. Gwynne, Nanette (1864), 18. The merry old woman was ecstasizing over the size and beauty of the … fish.
