cataleptic persons. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The next stage of hypnosis is known as the cataleptic state and is referred to as the "medium" state. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis] Reference
He seemed to be in a kind of cataleptic trance, so rigid his body, so unswerving his stare. From Wordnik.com. [Okewood of the Secret Service] Reference
Half the crowd looked to be in a cataleptic trance. From Wordnik.com. [Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin]
He looks drugged, Jim, almost in a cataleptic state. From Wordnik.com. [Patterns Of Force] Reference
If you can't do it, you have reached the cataleptic stage. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis] Reference
After three days they entered a state of cataleptic stillness. From Wordnik.com. [The War with the Newts] Reference
In an hour the eight spinybacks were so many cataleptic statues. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories]
“And again,” repeats mademoiselle, cataleptic with determination. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
Genevich is still narcoleptic and occasionally cataleptic in this sequel. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-24] Reference
What use is made of Marner's cataleptic fits in the development of the plot?. From Wordnik.com. [Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College] Reference
He thumps his chest in anger, and roars and quivers with cataleptic ferocity. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 36] Reference
Angus went cataleptic the minute we stuck him in the car and started driving. From Wordnik.com. [» Kids in the Back Seat Strocel.com] Reference
Ostoja went into a cataleptic trance and began mumbling incomprehensible words. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Brian:] Reference
They don't just plunge into the cataleptic or somnambulistic stages immediately. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis] Reference
Terror, or great fear, is one of the things which tends to a cataleptic condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Island] Reference
This was what he had been waiting for all those nineteen days in cataleptic hypnosis. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
Even under the best cataleptic conditions, the human body tended to slow down too much. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
We can let Clyde swear to what did happen — a cataleptic trance — no courage to do it. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
One would avoid, above all, the cataleptic and self-refuting litany of the neoclassical market. From Wordnik.com. [A Hard Case] Reference
He was open to all suggestions of remedy for the cataleptic state into which O'Hana had fallen. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Finally, becoming cataleptic, she has to be carried up the narrow staircase like a grand piano. From Wordnik.com. [Bleak House] Reference
Deep in the Jailgates 'thick foundations, Ruha caught herself staring at Yanseldara's cataleptic face. From Wordnik.com. [The Veiled Dragon]
Patients in the cataleptic state can be brought into the somnambulistic by rubbing the top of the head. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference
The following information will help you to understand why you were unable to complete this cataleptic test. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis] Reference
That is what he expresses so well in that little phrase, the Bois de Boulogne plunged in a cataleptic trance. From Wordnik.com. [Within a Budding Grove] Reference
Messing could become cataleptic … entering a trancelike or unresponsive state of consciousness …. at will. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: The Amazing Wolf Messing] Reference
"I brought you here frem the citadel at the Keep of the Four Worlds in a somewhat cataleptic condition," I said. From Wordnik.com. [Sign of Chaos]
The waiter, after standing for some seconds rigid, like a cataleptic, turned round and ran madly out of the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Father Brown Omnibus]
Then the patient's hand begins to follow his; and often having ascended some inches, stops in the air cataleptic. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
We must shed our dystopic entropic psychology of cataleptic catatonia with its apathetic anergy of cultural polymorphism. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Puddles Has Problems] Reference
Messieurs Binet and Fere, pupils of the Salpetriere school, describe the action of magnets on cataleptic subjects, as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference
In the cataleptic subject there is a close relation between the attitude the subject assumes and the intellectual manifestation. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference
For example, trance supposedly explains both fear-based, cataleptic, frozen rigidity and delight-based, ecstatic, frenzied mobility. From Wordnik.com. [The Bushman Way of Tracking God] Reference
The contraction of the muscles is a sign of the lethargic state, but the arm, remaining in position, indicates the cataleptic state. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use] Reference
Eventually, he so perfected his technique that he could throw a cataleptic fit and produce a message without any previous preparation. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
According to the Stoics, cataleptic impressions are impressions which reveal, in virtue of their clearness and distinctness, certain truth. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Skepticism] Reference
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