cataleptic

American  

[ka-tuh-lep-tik] / ˈkæ təˈlɛp tɪk /

adjective

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

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noun

plural

cataleptics

1. a person experiencing or suffering from catalepsy.

Example Sentences

They didn’t have official Black Friday sales during the cataleptic 1970s, because the economy was in woeful shape and the public had basically given up on the idea of bargains.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From Literature

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

From Literature

For a time, under the influence of Charcot and his disciples, there was a very generally accepted opinion that the hypnotic trance was a pathological condition, somewhat allied to the cataleptic phase of major hysteria.

From Project Gutenberg

Meanwhile the cats set up a squall, And, safe upon the garden-wall, All night kept cat-a-walling; As if the feline race were all, In one wild cataleptic sprawl, Into love's tortures falling.

From Project Gutenberg