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Definition of "cataleptoid" []

  • Resembling catalepsy.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "cataleptoid" in a sentence
  • "It were too much like mixing Websterian dignity with a cataleptoid convulsion, or sitting on a red ant hill and trying to look unconcerned."
  • "Therefore his reverence proceeded to have a cataleptoid convulsion and cut fantastic capers before high heaven."
  • "Jogins who could hibernate at will; the Dandins of India who became cataleptoid by 12,000 repetitions of the sacred word Om; St. Simeon"