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Synonyms for catalepsy

Grammar : Noun
Spell : kat-l-ep-see
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæt lˌɛp si

Top 10 synonyms for catalepsy
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Définition of catalepsy

Origin :
  • late 14c., cathalempsia, from Medieval Latin catalepsia, from Late Latin catalepsis, from Greek katalepsis "a seizure, a seizing upon, a taking possession," from kataleptos "seized," from katalambanein "to seize upon," from kata- "down" (see cata-) + lambanein "to take" (see analemma).
  • As in trance : noun hypnotic state
  • As in sleeping sickness : noun type of encephalitis
Example sentences :
  • When not in a catalepsy of literary composition, I am essentially the man of action.
  • Extract from : « Love Among the Chickens » by P. G. Wodehouse
  • Is it the catalepsy in which life is suspended, but consciousness acute?
  • Extract from : « A Strange Story, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • But even as he spoke he stiffened as a man suddenly struck with catalepsy.
  • Extract from : « The Proud Prince » by Justin Huntly McCarthy
  • Saul fell from his horse in an access of fever, or catalepsy.
  • Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Galatians » by G. G. Findlay
  • At other times he sat hour by hour in a state as motionless as that of catalepsy.
  • Extract from : « The Philosophy of Disenchantment » by Edgar Saltus
  • O'Rane was standing in the middle of the library like a—like a man in catalepsy.
  • Extract from : « Sonia Married » by Stephen McKenna
  • Most likely a state of catalepsy, but he was buried and none thought a second time about it.
  • Extract from : « The Pacific Triangle » by Sydney Greenbie
  • You may know all about catalepsy and hydrophobia, and nothing about itch or measles.
  • Extract from : « Opuscula » by Robert Gordon Latham
  • According to your theory, at what point of time does your catalepsy end?
  • Extract from : « Red as a Rose is She » by Rhoda Broughton
  • Except that I could move and feel, I was like a man fallen in a catalepsy.
  • Extract from : « Across the Plains » by Robert Louis Stevenson

Antonyms for catalepsy

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