cataleptic

English

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Adjective

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.

Derived terms

• anticataleptic
• cataleptical
• cataleptically

 

Noun

cataleptic (plural cataleptics)

1. A person experiencing catalepsy.

Translations

cataleptic

• Greek: καταληπτικός (el) (kataliptikós)
• Polish: kataleptyczny

Anagrams

• catapeltic

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cataleptique, from Latin catalepticus.

Adjective

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

1. cataleptic

Declension

Declension of cataleptic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	cataleptic		cataleptică	cataleptici	cataleptice
	definite	catalepticul		cataleptica	catalepticii	catalepticele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	cataleptic		cataleptice	cataleptici	cataleptice
	definite	catalepticului		catalepticei	catalepticilor	catalepticelor