ecstacy
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]ecstacy (countable and uncountable, plural ecstacies)
- Obsolete spelling of ecstasy.
- 1879, Jami, “Sáláman and Absál. Preliminary Invocation.”, in [Edward FitzGerald], transl., Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia; and The Salámán and Ábsál of Jámí; […], 4th edition, London: Bernard Quaritch; […], →OCLC, page 51:
- Oh Thou, whose Spirit through this universe / In which Thou dost involve thyself diffused, / Shall so perchance irradiate human clay / That men, suddenly dazzled, lose themselves / In ecstacy before a mortal shrine / Whose Light is but a Shade of the Divine; […]