cataleptic

[ka-tuh-lep-tik]

adjective

1. relating to, characteristic of, or affected by catalepsy.

noun

plural

cataleptics 

1. a person experiencing or suffering from catalepsy.

Example Sentences

Equally crucial to the hijinks is Rathbone getting the meaty role of the cataleptic landlord Mr. Black who demands back rent from Trumbull but gets murdered, over and over again, for his efforts.

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Through the rest of the night and most of the following day, Beck lay out on the ice, exposed to the merciless wind, cataleptic and barely alive.

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He stood stock still in rigid, cataleptic astonishment while the girls ambled in and made themselves comfortable.

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In 1374, at Aix-la-Chapelle, crowds of men and women danced together in the streets until they fell exhausted in a cataleptic state.

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The conscience party may not be dead, but cataleptic—destined to rise again—to fall more feebly than before.

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