Ecstatica vs Ecstatick - What's the difference?
ecstatica | ecstatick |
(obsolete, or, historical) A woman perceived to have a highly sensitive emotional state, or prone to quasi-mystical trances.
* 1891 , Julian Ochorowicz, Joseph Fitzgerald, Mental suggestion
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 256:
As a noun ecstatica
is (obsolete|or|historical) a woman perceived to have a highly sensitive emotional state, or prone to quasi-mystical trances.As an adjective ecstatick is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The ecstaticas sometimes divined thoughts, but Father Surin must know beforehand what the thoughts were; else the thing did not work.
- She was known to the T.W.I.T. as an “ecstatica ,” a classification enjoying apparently somewhat more respect than a common medium.