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Definition of Catalepsies
1. catalepsy [n] - See also: catalepsy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catalepsies
Literary usage of Catalepsies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mental State of Hystericals: A Study of Mental Stigmata and Mental Accidents by Pierre Janet (1901)
"... and the phenomena of substitution, which succeed in re-establishing motion by
giving it a particular aspect. § 3—PARTIAL catalepsies ..."
2. Medical diagnosis: With Special Reference to Practical Medicine. A Guide to by Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1895)
"catalepsies of particular groups of muscles, ... partial catalepsies, can also
be artificially excited. In the rare condition known as trance, or lethargy, ..."
3. Medical diagnosis, with special reference to practical medicine by Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1884)
"Catalepsy may lie artificially induced, as we know from the interesting experiments
on " hypnotism" which are now being made. catalepsies of particular ..."
4. A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1897)
"... faintings, catalepsies, trances, were customary concomitants of the revival
preaching. Multitudes fell prostrate on the ground, " spiritually slain," as ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1894)
"... catalepsies, contractures, ' in the domain of motility, and lastly, in
intelligence, the amnesia;, ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1883)
"All physicians, all psychologists of reputation, agree that besides sleeping and
waking there are other conditions—trances, ecstasies, catalepsies, ..."
7. Primitive Traits in Religious Revivals: A Study in Mental and Social Evolution by Frederick Morgan Davenport (1905)
"This is the explanation of the catalepsies that befell many under John Wesley's
sermons and that have been widely attributed even in our own day to "the ..."
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