WordNet
ecstatic state
n. a trance induced by intense religious devotion; does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances [syn: religious trance]
Usage examples of "ecstatic state".
The ecstatic state of dervishing is indisputable - the feeling, believe me, is supremely exquisite - but I, at least, felt no closer to God when I danced, and within a year I had drifted from the faith.
There is nothing in him, nothing he could do to me, that could lift me to that exalted, ecstatic state I have just known with Lee.
There had been times when she had fought against the onset of the ecstatic state.
A harmless nut, driven into an ecstatic state by the seer's orations.
Jimmy, in his ecstatic state, was very calm and unexcitable and didn't have a great desire to say anything.