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cataleptic, a. (and n.)|kætəˈlɛptɪk|
[ad. late L. catalēptic-us, a. Gr. καταληπτικός cataleptic, f. καταληπτ-ός seized, f. καταλαµβάνειν to seize upon.]
A. adj.
1. Med.
a. Affected by catalepsy.
1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. iii. 86 Galen..allows Malmsey-wine to Cataleptick persons. 1862Lytton Str. Story II. 224 A cataleptic or ecstatic patient. 1866Cornh. Mag. Sept. 379 A soulless body, a cataleptic subject mesmerized by a stronger will.
b. Of or pertaining to catalepsy.
1794–6E. Darwin Zoon. (1801) I. 325 Reverie is a disease of the epileptic or cataleptic kind. 1817M. Edgeworth Love & L. iii. xliv. 171 The cataleptic rigidity of his figure relaxed. 1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. i. 7 Silas's cataleptic fit occurred during the prayer-meeting.
2. Philos. Pertaining to apprehension.
1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) I. 356 Of true phantasms, some are cataleptic (apprehensive) and others non-cataleptic... The cataleptic phantasm is that which is impressed by an object that exists.
B. n. One affected by catalepsy.
1851H. Mayo Pop. Superst. (ed. 2) 118 The cataleptic apprehends or perceives directly the objects around her. 1862J. Cunningham in Macm. Mag. Apr. 514 There have been cataleptics..who had two distinct currents of existence.
Hence (in Med.) cataˈleptiform, cataˈleptoid adjs., resembling catalepsy.
1847–9Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. IV. 695/1 This contraction..may keep it [the limb] fixed in a cataleptiform manner. 1881Syd. Soc. Lex., Cataleptoid. |