Εκστατικοί, from εκστάσις, I am entranced, in antiquity, a kind of diviners who were cast into trances or ecstasies, in which they lay like dead men, or asleep, deprived of all sense and motion; but, after some time, returning to themselves, gave strange relations of what they had seen or heard.

ETHESES, in church history, a confession of faith, in the form of an edict, published in the year 639, by the emperor Heraclius, with a view to pacify the troubles occasioned by the Eutychian heresy in the eastern church. However, the same prince revoked it, on being informed that Pope Severinus had condemned it, as favouring the Monothelites; declaring at the same time, that Sergius, patriarch of Constantinople, was the author of it.

ETHLIPSIS, among Latin grammarians, a figure of profody, whereby the m at the end of a word, when the following word begins with a vowel, is elided, or cut off, together with the vowel preceding it, for the sake of the measure of the verse: thus they read mult' ille, for multum ille.