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- noun A
woman perceived to have a highly sensitive emotional state, or prone to quasi-mysticaltrances .
Etymologies
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From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἐκστατικός (ekstatikos).
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Aachen, in 1611, that of the pretended ecstatica, Madeleine Bavent, who upon similar charges was put to death with her confessor at
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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