ecstasize

English

Etymology

From ecstasy +‎ -ize.

Verb

ecstasize (third-person singular simple present ecstasizes, present participle ecstasizing, simple past and past participle ecstasized)

1. (intransitive) To go into a state of ecstasy or rapture.
2. (transitive) To send into a state of ecstasy.
   • 1908, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, […], part third, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, Act VI, scene ii, page 175:

     The air is ecstasizing, and both sexes abandon themselves to the movement.