cataleptic
adjective
relating to, characteristic of, or affected by catalepsy.
cataleptics
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pluralof cataleptic.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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These things are not miraculous, being duplicated in experiments on involuntary cataleptics.
From Time Magazine Archive
He then gives excellent descriptions of three types: the deep stupor with paralysis of the faculties, the cases that are absorbed in false ideas, and ecstatic cataleptics.
From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy
Gradually life wrestled again out of winter, and the Knight, as cataleptics must, finished the address which he had begun with the word "Unlucky--" "woman, of whom art thou mother?"
From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul
Suppose they were in the condition of cataleptics, sensible of what passed around them, but paralyzed to the motionlessness and seeming insensibility of death?
From The Frozen Pirate by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
This would account for the fact that places where cataleptics and idiots have died are often haunted by semi and by wholly animal types of phantasms.
From Werwolves by Elliott O'Donnell
