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
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 Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)
Can you wonder that the country is being hypnotized by the sight of so many cantankerous cataleptics?
From Psycho-Phone Messages by Grierson, Francis
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 MacCurdy, John T. (John Thompson)
