Cataleptic
[,kætə'lɛptɪk]
Definition
(noun.) a person suffering from catalepsy.
(adj.) of or having characteristics of or affected with catalepsy; 'cataleptic persons'; 'cataleptic state' .
Typist: Nigel--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit.
Editor: Omar
Examples
- Finally, becoming cataleptic, she has to be carried up the narrow staircase like a grand piano. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And again, repeats mademoiselle, cataleptic with determination. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He has been for some years a victim to cataleptic attacks, on which, as is well known, Dr. Trevelyan is an authority. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Typed by Emile