cataleptic

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• cataleptic state
• With a quick jerk, cataleptically, his nose pointed to the zenith, his mouth opened, and a flood of sound poured forth, running swiftly upward in crescendo and slowly falling as it died away. CHAPTER XXII
• cataleptic persons
• The next stage of hypnosis is known as the cataleptic state and is referred to as the "medium" state. A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis
• He sat down abruptly, almost cataleptically, drew his head away from the clutch of her hands and out of the entanglement of her hair, and, his nose thrust upward at an angle of forty-five degrees, he began to quiver and to breathe audibly in rhythm to the rhythm of her singing. CHAPTER XXII
• He seemed to be in a kind of cataleptic trance, so rigid his body, so unswerving his stare. Okewood of the Secret Service
• Aristotle; listening in a kind of cataleptic helplessness to a confession of faith that scattered their doctrines to the winds. The Valley of Decision
• I have heard, that if these sublime geniuses are awakened from their reveries by the _appulse_ of external circumstances, they start, and exhibit all the perturbation and amazement of _cataleptic_ patients. Tales and Novels — Volume 08
• a kind of cataleptic trance by the horrible expedient of the transfusion into it of blood drawn from other human beings by his semi-materialized Kâmarûpa, and thus postpones his final destiny by the commission of wholesale murder. The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena
• I have heard, that if these sublime genuises are wakened from their reveries by the appulse of external circumstances, they start, and exhibit all the perturbation and amazement of cataleptic patients. Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification