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cataleptically

adv. In a cataleptic way.

Usage examples of "cataleptically".

He sat down abruptly, almost cataleptically, drew his head away from the clutch of her hands and out of the entanglement of her hair, and, his nose thrust upward at an angle of forty-five degrees, he began to quiver and to breathe audibly in rhythm to the rhythm of her singing.

With a quick jerk, cataleptically, his nose pointed to the zenith, his mouth opened, and a flood of sound poured forth, running swiftly upward in crescendo and slowly falling as it died away.

I reared, felt my way backward step by step, the ability to turn my body cataleptically denied me.

She was cataleptically silent, after that first scream of discovery, for the same reason.