ecstatics

/ ɛkˈstætɪks /

plural noun

Intoxication steeps you in fantastic imaginings every whit as strange as those of ecstatics.

They are a herd of cattle; sentimental, ridiculous people who are in ecstatics over their aristocracy and over their king.

Ecstatics, seers of visions, and devout fasting girls who eat on the sly, often belong to this category.

But these ecstatics were also enthusiasts for Israel; and this saved the movement from morbidness.

At the same time she utilised the spiritual forces of monasticism, and turned the mystic impulse of ecstatics to account.

April 20, 2024flabbergast

[flab-er-gast ]

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