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Commiserate vs Ecstasy - What's the difference?

commiserate | ecstasy |

As an adjective commiserate

is (obsolete|rare) commiserating, pitying, lamentful.

As a verb commiserate

is to feel or express compassion or sympathy for (someone or something).

As a proper noun ecstasy is

(slang) the drug mdma, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.

commiserate

English

Etymology 1

From , the perfect passive participle of commiseror.

Adjective

(-)
  • (obsolete, rare) commiserating, pitying, lamentful
  • * 1593 : , Christ’s Teares over Jerusalem , page 157 (1815 edited republication)
    • In the time of Gregory Nazianzene, if we may credit ecclesiastical records, there sprung up the direfulest mortality in Rome that mankind hath been acquainted with; scarce able were the living to bury the dead, and not so much but their streets were digged up for graves, which this holy Father (with no little commiserate heart-bleeding) beholding, commanded all the clergy (for he was at that time their chief bishop) to assemble in prayer and supplications, and deal forcingly beseeching with God, to intermit his fury and forgive them.

    References

    * “ †co?mmiserate, ppl. a.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989

    Etymology 2

    Modelled upon , the perfect passive participial stem of the (etyl) commiseror.

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete spelling and modern misspelling) * (l) (obsolete spelling and modern misspelling)

    Verb

  • To feel or express compassion or sympathy for (someone or something).
  • (ambitransitive) To offer condolences jointly with; express sympathy with.
  • To sympathize; condole.
    • Derived terms
    * (l), (l) * (l)

    References

    * “ commiserate, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989

    Related terms

    * misery ----

    ecstasy

    English

    (wikipedia ecstasy)

    Alternative forms

    * extasy

    Noun

  • Intense pleasure.
  • * Shakespeare
    • This is the very ecstasy of love.
  • * Milton
    • He on the tender grass / Would sit, and hearken even to ecstasy .
  • A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.
  • * Dryden
    • like a mad prophet in an ecstasy
  • A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.
  • (obsolete) Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.
  • * Shakespeare
    • That unmatched form and feature of blown youth / Blasted with ecstasy .
  • * Marlowe
    • Our words will but increase his ecstasy .
  • (slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.
  • (medicine, dated) A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended; the body is erect and inflexible; but the pulse and breathing are not affected.
    • (Mayne)

    Synonyms

    * (the drug) MDMA mali; (Modern Vernacular) E, XTC, X, mali, thizz

    Antonyms

    * (intense pleasure) agony

    Related terms

    * ecstatic