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Catalepsy

noun

A trancelike state with loss of voluntary motion and failure to react to stimuli.

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"Catalepsy" Quotes from Famous Books

... is easily conceivable from the scenes referred to in my last letter, which are witnessed at religious revivals. One person became hysterical, then another; one was seized with catalepsy, then others; some with convulsions; some with palpitations of the heart, perspirations, and other bodily disturbances. These effects, however various and different, went all by the name of "salutary crises." The method was supposed to produce, in the sick person, exactly the kind ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various

... lightly contradicts the Biblical narratives of the raising of the "dead" to life is seemingly ignorant of facts that go far to place these upon firm ground as historical occurrences. Catalepsy, or the simulation of death by a trance, in which the body is sometimes cold and rigid, sensation gone, the heart still, is well known to medical men.[13] In early times such a condition would inevitably have ...

— Miracles and Supernatural Religion • James Morris Whiton

Words linked to "Catalepsy" : hypersomnia, cataleptic