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Definition of Ecstatic state
1. Noun. A trance induced by intense religious devotion; does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ecstatic State
Literary usage of Ecstatic state
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"The act was itself a prayer, and, like other prayers, it might be answered.'
After a time, he passed into the new, mysterious, half- ecstatic state ..."
2. Church Unity: Studies of Its Most Important Problems by Charles Augustus Briggs (1909)
"The ecstatic state and the Christoph- any are not infrequently combined in the
... Indeed, the ecstatic state seems to be the most appropriate condition in ..."
3. An Exposition of the First Epistle to the Corinthians by Charles Hodge (1860)
"This verse, therefore, proves that the understanding was not in abeyance, and
that the speaker was not in an ecstatic state. 5. ..."
4. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1892)
"After a time, he passed into the new, mysterious half-ecstatic state.6 All
disturbing elements — selfishness, prejudice, the fear of man — were eliminated. ..."
5. Leaves from a physician's journal by D E Smith (1867)
"But the trance state is analogous to the ecstatic state," said Number Three, the
man of the immaculate boots and unmentionables. " Aye, aye ! ..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Balaam's oracles are pictured as delivered while he was in the ecstatic state,
in accord- Biblical anee with the usual pha.se of prophecy Examples, ..."
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