ekstasis

• Some have an emphatic belief in alcohol, and seek their ekstasis or outside standing-ground in gin; but the rest require something that good society calls "enthusiasm," something that will present motives in an entire absence of high prizes; something that will give patience and feed human love when the limbs ache with weariness, and human looks are hard upon us; something, clearly, that lies outside personal desires, that includes resignation for ourselves and active love for what is not ourselves. —  The Mill on the Floss
• Ecstasy, ekstasis, a displacement or removal of the soul from the body, into which the demon enters and causes strange laughing, crying, or contortions. —  Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
• [Greek: ekstasis], to Greek action and [Greek: eleutheria]. —  Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871
• The Greek _ekstasis_ = standing out of one's self. —  Milton's Comus
• We may compare the haplosis or ekstasis of Plotinus and the visions of St —  Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1

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