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catalepsy|ˈkætəlɛpsɪ|
Also 4–6 -lempsie, -lencie.
[ad. med.L. catalēpsia, f. Gr. κατάληψις a seizing upon (see next); the L. form catalēpsis was formerly in common use. In F. catalepsie.]
1. Med. A disease characterized by a seizure or trance, lasting for hours or days, with suspension of sensation and consciousness.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. x. (1495) 229 There ben thre manere of Epilency..Epilencia..Analempsia..Cathalempsia. 1547Boorde Brev. Health lxiv. 27 b, The Catalency which is one of the kyndes of the fallynge sickenes. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 200 Apoplexies, Catalepsies, and Coma's. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 366 There is a Disease of the same kind call'd a Catalepsis. 1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 839 Catalepsy..is evidently allied to one of the forms of hysteria.
2. Philos. Comprehension, apprehension.
[1580North Plutarch (1676) 446 The old Academicks..hold, that a man may certainly know and comprehend something, and called that Catalepsin.] 1656Blount Glossogr., Catalepsie, occupation, deprehension, knowledge. 1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) I. 365 The doctrine of Acatalepsy recalls to us the Stoical doctrine of Catalepsy, or Apprehension. |