What is "cataleptic"

Usage examples of "cataleptic".

If a Strigoi cannot expend the required magic points it will fall into a cataleptic state and unable to use any of its powers.

The impression one gets, in fact, from that brief vision is one of frozen cataleptic silence in a world from which all life has recently been extinguished by some appalling catastrophe.

As they drove across the Square it seemed almost to have been frozen in a cataleptic silence, the bulbous clusters of the street lamps around the Square burned with a hard and barren radiance--a ghastly mocking of life, of metropolitan gaiety, in a desert scene from which all life had by some pestilence or catastrophe of nature been extinguished.

These streets, even if visited by someone in his waking hours, by some stranger in the fullness of health and sanity, and under the living and practical light of noon or, more particularly, by some man stunned with drink, who came there at some desolate and empty hour of night, might have a kind of cataleptic horror, a visionary unreality, as if some great maniac of architecture had conceived and shaped the first harsh, ugly pattern of brown angularity, and then repeated it, without a change, into the infinity of illimitable repetition, with the mad and measureless insistence of an idiotic monotony.

The items on the escritoire were meticulously arranged, the inkwell of black onyx, the Persian paper knife which had once actually tasted blood when some woman of past acquaintance - this time not Sovaz - had picked it up and flung it at him in a cataleptic fit of rage.

Of himself, concerned for an unexpectedly cataleptic Pip, entering a dome identical to the one that now rose before him.

He could not leave them here, frozen in cataleptic sleep, even if he did not think that their knowledge might prove valuable.

The air supply, of course, had not bothered him during his cataleptic state, but now it was becoming a problem.

Court had entered the golden space ship and found the cataleptic bodies, he would naturally have tried to awaken them.

He stood stock still in rigid, cataleptic astonishment while the girls ambled in and made themselves comfortable.

Most people will get the books for themselves, for their cataleptic wives and so on.

The lycanthropist falls into a cataleptic trance, during which his soul leaves his body, enters that of a wolf and ravens for blood.

Patients in the cataleptic state can be brought into the somnambulistic by rubbing the top of the head.

Although he couldn't swallow the bright terror rising in his throat or unknot the red pain closing around his heart, his hands were almost steady as he injected more drugs into his veins - analgesics to flush the now-poisonous stimulants and cataleptics away, antihistamines and steroids to soften his body's reactions.

Although he couldn’t swallow the bright terror rising in his throat or unknot the red pain closing around his heart, his hands were almost steady as he injected more drugs into his veins - analgesics to flush the now-poisonous stimulants and cataleptics away, antihistamines and steroids to soften his body’s reactions.