[f. the sb. Cf. ECSTASIZE v.]
† 1. trans. To throw into a state of frenzy or stupor. Only in pass. Obs.
1627. Feltham, Resolves, II. i. Wks. (1677), 159. They us’d to be so extasi’d … as … to tear their garments.
1646. G. Daniel, Poems, Wks. (1878), I. 12. My Blood was Corral, and my Breath was Ice, Extasied from all Sence, to thinke [etc.].
1670. Conclave wherein Clement VIII. was elected Pope, 2. They were extasied with distractions.
† 2. intr. To behave as in an ecstasy. Obs.
1636. W. Denny, in Ann. Dubrensia (1877), 15. With seeming seeing, yet not seeing eyes … he extasies.
3. trans. To raise to a high state of feeling; to fill with transport; now esp. to delight intensely, enrapture. Chiefly in pass.; see ECSTASIED.
1624. Heywood, Captives, V. i. in Bullen, O. Pl., IV. Thou with these woords hast extasyde my sowle. Ibid. (1631), Fair M. of West, I. II. i. Wks. 1874, II. 281. I cannot but wonder why any fortune should make a man ecstasied.
1660. Character of Italy, 89. She would extasy a foreiner with the sight of her stately fabricks.
1864. Neale, Seaton. Poems, 251. Breathless with haste and ecstasied with joy.
1874. T. Hardy, Far fr. Madding Crowd, II. xx. 232. The crowd was again ecstasied.
