exstacy

English

Noun

exstacy (countable and uncountable, plural exstacies)

1. Obsolete spelling of ecstasy.
   • 1808, “The Recluses of Snowden. A Tale.”, in The Lady’s Monthly Museum; or, Polite Repository of Amusement and Instruction: Being an Assemblage of Whatever Can Tend to Please the Fancy, Interest the Mind, or Exalt the Character of the British Fair, volume IV, London: […] for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, […], by W. Wilson, page 183:

     Though Theodocius repressed the exstacy of his feelings, yet, when he heard Melville declare his wish of seeing them immediately united, his expressive countenance displayed the transports which he felt; […]

   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 207:

     The moment of her release from him was exstacy.

   • 1818, Thomas Hartwell Horne, An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Davies, […], page 378:

     The spirit is also put for revelations, visions, or exstacies, whether really from the Holy Spirit, or pretended to be so. […] I was in the spirit, that is, in an exstacy and peculiar revelation of the Holy Spirit, as is described in Rev. iv. 2. xvii. 3. xxi. 10. and 2. Cor. xii. 2.