cataleptic

cataleptic (comparative more cataleptic, superlative most cataleptic)

1. Pertaining to, or affected by, catalepsy.
   • 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial:

     Methought I was immersed in a cataleptic trance of more than usual duration and profundity.

   • 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 771:

     She keeps still, feigning cataleptic exhaustion.

cataleptic (plural cataleptics)

1. A person experiencing catalepsy.

• catapeltic

From French cataleptique, from Latin catalepticus.

cataleptic m or n (feminine singular cataleptică, masculine plural cataleptici, feminine and neuter plural cataleptice)

1. cataleptic