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Definition of Cataleptics
1. cataleptic [n] - See also: cataleptic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cataleptics
Literary usage of Cataleptics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay on the Human Soul by Jean Paul Marat (1772)
"... who walk in their deep and cataleptics. Hence if our thoughts be not perfectly
free but when len/ibility is not divided between ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"Unconscious imitations of movement by cataleptics and hysterical patients with
anaesthesia are due to the isolated activity of the sub-cortical visual ..."
3. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1908)
"We may call this circle from the muscle to K, from K to M, and from M to the
muscle again, the ' motor circle.' We should ail be cataleptics and never stop ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"There is evidence that many religious fanatics were epileptics or cataleptics.
Hecker, describing the dancing mania of the fourteenth century, ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1847)
"That this force exercises a mechanical attraction on the hands of cataleptics,
as does the force of crystals. 3. That this force is polarized in the human ..."
6. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"As James says, ' we should all be cataleptics and never stop a muscular contraction
once begun, were it not that other processes simultaneously going on ..."
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