catalepsy

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

We think now he probably suffered from catalepsy, a nervous condition that causes muscular rigidity.

From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2010

Whelan scrapped the result, not for lack of merit, but because he decided it could only evoke ten show-stopping minutes of caterwauling and catalepsy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eleanor Roosevelt's frilly white collar turned to sponge; her smile froze into catalepsy.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Sometimes our people get happy and skip around a bit," she said, "but . . . we don't have any catalepsy or epilepsy."

From Time Magazine Archive

I would stand on Lambert's chest, remaining there several minutes without giving him the slightest pain; but notwithstanding these crazy attempts, we did not achieve an attack of catalepsy.

From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de