Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EC'STAT-IC, or EC'STAT-IC-AL, a.

1. Arresting the mind; suspending the senses; entrancing. In pensive trance, and anguish, and ecstatic fit. Milton.
2. Rapturous; transporting; ravishing; delightful beyond measure; as, ecstatic bliss or joy.
3. Tending to external objects. [Not used.] Norris.