If the ecstatic state comes about slowly, the subject may notice changes in his or her physiological responses.

Fleming passed the rest of the afternoon in an almost ecstatic state of anticipation.

A short while later they might suddenly return to an ecstatic state.

Returning to India, he continued to be subject to ecstatic states, some of which lasted for several weeks.

Like the dervish, it is a form of dance which induces an ecstatic state.

There had been times when she had fought against the onset of the ecstatic state.

The "devotion of union" is not only a supernatural but an essentially ecstatic state.

So he played on, in a kind of ecstatic state.

Early missionaries often reported on the ecstatic state caused by tobacco.

Dominating this ecstatic state is the feeling of intense love.