16 examples of catalepsy in sentences

Cata down catalepsy, cataclysm *

He then descended from his pulpit, and precisely as the sun attained the zenith laid his hand upon the bosom of the young prince, who instantly revived, and completed a sentence touching the game of dice which had been interrupted by his catalepsy.

In some, the shock produces a species of syncope, or catalepsy.

She had never really died; she only had a sort of nervous catalepsy induced by all the "suggestion" of death by which she was surrounded.

Quiescence N. rest; stillness &c adj.; quiescence; stagnation, stagnancy; fixity, immobility, catalepsy; indisturbance^; quietism.

But at this spectacle, the baker, who seemed to have been struck by catalepsy at my first announce, awoke into tremendous agitation.

I had a strong and sudden convulsive attack, which left me speechless, though not motionless-for some strong men could not hold me; but whether it was epilepsy, catalepsy, cachexy, or apoplexy, or what other exy or epsy the doctors have not decided; or whether it was spasmodic or nervous, etc.; but it was very unpleasant, and nearly carried me off, and all that.

Certainly he opened his door again and again that night, and the last time, just as he put out his hand to close it, the invisible wand of catalepsy arrested him, and there he stood like a graven image, powerless to resist either the good or evil that might enter.

As the doctor said, there had been a crisis, an inward convulsion of the nerves, a fainting which had been almost a catalepsy, and, several hours later, a return to consciousness with a greatly increased chance of life, though with extreme momentary exhaustion.

The world is in a catalepsy.

There is in its motion an indefinable power to dissipate thought, and to contract one's attention to that monotony, till the ideas shrink, as it were, to a point, and at last to nothingand unless I had started up, and shook off the catalepsy I have felt as if my mind were on the point of losing itself.

We see the operation of this principle perfectly displayed, in certain cases of lunacy, of epilepsy, of catalepsy, and of mania, of a peculiar and painful character, though unattended by incapacity of business.

I now dared to look full into the facts, and saw that the disorders described were perfectly similar to epilepsy, mania, catalepsy, and other known maladies.

[Illustration: INCIPIENT CATALEPSY.]

In his arms he bore a basket, and his grey-green eyes gleamed with incipient catalepsy.

She became, in a sense, the symbolic deity of indestructible lust, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, of accursed Beauty, distinguished from all others by the catalepsy which stiffens her flesh and hardens her muscles; the monstrous Beast, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, baneful, like the Helen of antiquity, fatal to all who approach her, all who behold her, all whom she touches.

16 examples of  catalepsy  in sentences