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ἔκστα^σις , εως, ἡ, (ἐξίστημι)
A.displacement, “ἄρθρων” Hp.Art.56 ; “πᾶσα κίνησις ἔ. ἐστι τοῦ κινουμένου” Arist.de An.406b13 : hence, change, “εἰς ἀντικείμενα” Id.GA768a27 ; “αἱ κακίαι ἐ.” Id.Ph.247a3 ; “ἔ. ἐστιν ἐν τῇ γενέσει τὸ παρὰ φύσιν τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν” Id.Cael.286a19 ; “ἔ. τῆς φύσεως” degeneracy, Thphr.CP3.1.6 ; opp. στάσις, Plot.6.3.2 ; movement outwards, “ἔ. ἀπὸ τοῦ παράγοντος” Dam.Pr.97 bis ; ἔ. εἰς τὸ ἔξω ib.401 ; “[σῶμα] ἐν ἐκστάσει λαβὸν τὴν ὑπόστασιν” Porph.Sent.36 ; differentiation, “ἔ. καὶ πιῆθος” Plot.6.7.17 ; “αἱ εἰς πλῆθος ἐ.” Procl.in Ti.2.203 D.
II. standing aside, Arist.Rh.1361a37 (pl.).
b. = Lat. cessio bonorum, CPR20ii9 (iii A.D.) ; “ἔ. χρημάτων” Porph.Abst.1.53 ; a tax on cessions, BGU914.6 (ii A.D.), PLond.2.305.2 (PTeb.ii p.184).
2. distraction of mind, from terror, astonishment, anger, etc., Hp.Aph.7.5, Prorrh.2.9 ; “ἔ. σιγῶσα” Id.Coac.65 ; “ἔ. μανική” Arist.Cat.10a1 ; “ἔ. τῶν λογισμῶν” Plu.Sol.8 ; “νοῦ” Plot.5.3.7 ; “τὰ μηδὲ προσδοκώμεν᾽ ἔκστασιν φέρει” Men.149, cf. Epit.472, Epicur.Fr.113 ; “εἰς ἔ. ἄγειν” Longin.1.4.
3. entrancement, astonishment, Ev.Luc.5.26, Ev.Marc.5.42.
4. trance, Act.Ap.10.10, 22.17 ; ecstasy, Plot.6.9.11 ; “ἔ. καὶ μανία” Herm. in Phdr.p.103A.
b. drunken excitement, Corn.ND30.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • New Testament, Mark, 5.42
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