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单词 cataleptic
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catalepticadj.n.

/katəˈlɛptɪk/
Etymology: < late Latin catalēpticus, < Greek καταληπτικός cataleptic, < καταληπτός seized, < καταλαμβάνειν to seize upon.
A. adj.
1. Medicine.
a. Affected by catalepsy.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [adjective] > catalepsy > affected with
cataleptic1684
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iii. 86 Galen..allows Malmsey-wine to Cataleptick persons.
1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story II. xxxi. 224 A cataleptic or ecstatic patient.
1866 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 379 A soulless body, a cataleptic subject mesmerized by a stronger will.
b. Of or pertaining to catalepsy.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [adjective] > catalepsy
cataleptic1794
cataleptiform1849
1794–6 E. Darwin Zoonomia (1801) I. 325 Reverie is a disease of the epileptic or cataleptic kind.
1814 M. Edgeworth Patronage IV. xliv. 377 The cataleptic rigidity of his figure relaxed.
1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner i. 15 Silas's cataleptic fit occurred during the prayer-meeting.
2. Philosophy. Pertaining to apprehension.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > epistemology > [adjective] > of perception
cataleptic1845
perceptionalist1847
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > [adjective] > of or belonging to Stoicism > of elements of Stoicism
cataleptic1845
1845 G. H. Lewes Biogr. Hist. Philos. II. 157 Of true Phantasms, some are Apprehensive (cataleptic,) and others non-cataleptic... The cataleptic Phantasm is that which is impressed by an object which exists.
B. n.
One affected by catalepsy.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [noun] > catalepsy > person
cataleptic1851
1851 H. Mayo On Truths Pop. Superstit. (ed. 2) 118 The cataleptic apprehends or perceives directly the objects around her.
1862 J. Cunningham in Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 514 There have been cataleptics..who had two distinct currents of existence.

Derivatives

Hence (in Medicine)
cataˈleptiform adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > stupor or coma > [adjective] > catalepsy
cataleptic1794
cataleptiform1849
1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 695/1 This contraction..may keep it [the limb] fixed in a cataleptiform manner.
cataˈleptoid adj. resembling catalepsy.
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1881 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Cataleptoid.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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