extasy

American  

[ek-stuh-see] / ˈɛk stə si /

noun

Archaic.

1. an archaic spelling of ecstasy.

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Etymology

Origin of extasy

First recorded in 1610–20

Example Sentences

And then, at the receipt of a bit of good news this austere man is seized with "such an extasy of joy" that he gives Pepys the merriest evening of his life.

From Leaves in the Wind by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)

And some sayeth, that their bodies lying stil as in an extasy, their spirits wil be rauished out of their bodies, & caried to such places.

From Daemonologie. by James I, King of England

She felt all the elevated sentiments of pious extasy and triumph, which breath in that exquisite piece of sacred poetry.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Cibber, Theophilus

Our artist has endeavoured to represent the noble creature in his bath, though the pencil can afford but an imperfect idea of the extasy of the animal on this occasion.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832 by Various

It did not require the measured sounds of human language to syllable the story of my extasy.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft