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  • English Word Ecru Definition Having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like.
  • English Word Ecstasies Definition of Ecstasy
  • English Word Ecstasy Definition The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries.
  • English Word Ecstasy Definition Excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight.
  • English Word Ecstasy Definition Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness.
  • English Word Ecstasy Definition A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected.
  • English Word Ecstasy Definition To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm.
  • English Word Ecstatic Definition Pertaining to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance.
  • English Word Ecstatic Definition Delightful beyond measure; rapturous; ravishing; as, ecstatic bliss or joy.
  • English Word Ecstatic Definition An enthusiast.
  • English Word Ecstatical Definition Ecstatic.
  • English Word Ecstatical Definition Tending to external objects.
  • English Word Ecstatically Definition Rapturously; ravishingly.
  • English Word Ect- Definition Alt. of Ecto-
  • English Word Ectad Definition Toward the outside or surface; -- opposed to entad.
  • English Word Ectal Definition Pertaining to, or situated near, the surface; outer; -- opposed to ental.
  • English Word Ectasia Definition A dilatation of a hollow organ or of a canal.
  • English Word Ectasis Definition The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.
  • English Word Ectental Definition Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the "ectental line" or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum.
  • English Word Ecteron Definition The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon.
  • English Word Ectethmoid Definition External to the ethmoid; prefrontal.
  • English Word Ecthlipsis Definition The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.
  • English Word Ecthlipsis Definition The elision of a final m, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel.
  • English Word Ecthorea Definition of Ecthoreum
  • English Word Ecthoreum Definition The slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See Nettling cell.
  • English Word Ecthyma Definition A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base.
  • English Word Ecthymata Definition of Ecthyma
  • English Word Ecto- Definition A combining form signifying without, outside, external.
  • English Word Ecto- Definition See Ect-.
  • English Word Ectoblast Definition The outer layer of the blastoderm; the epiblast; the ectoderm.