How To Use Cataleptic In A Sentence
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cataleptic state
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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
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cataleptic persons
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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
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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
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He seemed to be in a kind of cataleptic trance, so rigid his body, so unswerving his stare.
Okewood of the Secret Service
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Aristotle; listening in a kind of cataleptic helplessness to a confession of faith that scattered their doctrines to the winds.
The Valley of Decision
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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
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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
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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
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Women smitten with hystero-epilepsy see phantoms beside them in broad daylight and mate with them in a cataleptic state, and every night couch with visions that must be exactly like the fluid creatures of incubacy.
Là-bas
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Foreigners are the ones who are keeping the cataleptic Sylvester Stallone's career alive.
That's Entertainment—Somewhere Else
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The young lady, though not insensible, became paralyzed with horror, and remained in a kind of cataleptic trance, fully conscious, but unable to move or speak, until, at nine o'clock next day, no answer having been given to repeated calls of her maid, the doors were forced open.
Purgatory
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The others endeavoured to restore the afflicted Fairy, but, though still alive, she was in some kind of cataleptic condition which was beyond the ordinary remedies.
In Brief Authority
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For example, trance supposedly explains both fear-based, cataleptic, frozen rigidity and delight-based, ecstatic, frenzied mobility.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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Symptoms often began as a cataleptic state with catatonic rigidity.
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It has been mentioned that in many so-called cataleptic cases, a condition of violent spasm is constantly present, _except_ when the patient falls into an alternative state of trance.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
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He continued in a kind of cataleptic stupor, so that he would remain for hours in any posture he was placed, either in his chair, or in bed; and did not attempt to speak for about a fortnight; and then gradually recovered.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
