单词 | catalepsy |
释义 | catalepsyn. 1. Medicine. A disease characterized by a seizure or trance, lasting for hours or days, with suspension of sensation and consciousness. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [noun] > catalepsy catalepsy1398 ecstasy1598 ecstasis1621 catochus1653 catoche1656 trance1842 trance-coma1849 trance-sleep1849 autocatalepsy1851 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. x. 229 There ben thre manere of Epilency..Epilencia..Analempsia..Cathalempsia. 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. xxxiiv The Catalency, which is one of the kyndes of the fallynge sicknes. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 200 Apoplexies, Catalepsies, and Coma's. View more context for this quotation 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iii. 366 There is a Disease of the same Kind..call'd a Catalepsis. 1866 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. 627 Catalepsy..is evidently allied to one of the forms of hysteria. 2. Philosophy. Comprehension, apprehension. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Stoicism > elements of category1588 eupathy1603 catalepsy1656 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 575 The old Academickes..hold, that a man may certainly know, and comprehend something, and called that Catalepsin.] 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Catalepsie, occupation, deprehension, knowledge. 1845 G. H. Lewes Biogr. Hist. Philos. II. 169 The doctrine of acatalepsy recalls to us the Stoical doctrine of catalepsy or Apprehension. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1398 |
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