Crossword-Solution: CATALEPSY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Catalepsy | n. | Alt. of Catalepsis |
We have 11 clues for the answer “CATALEPSY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Silas Marner ailment (2) | 1 answer |
| a trancelike state with loss of voluntary motion and failure to react to stimuli | 1 answer |
| catatonia | 2 answers |
| MENTAL abstraction from external things | 4 answers |
| suspended animation | 18 answers |
| Hysteria | 24 answers |
| HYPNOTIC state | 38 answers |
| ABSORPTION ___ | 46 answers |
| Unconsciousness | 52 answers |
| Ecstasy | 69 answers |
| DISEASE, type of | 110 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MECAEZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CATALEPSY (5)
The celebrated physicians who came from London talked of catalepsy and afterward wrote scientific articles which tried to explain her condition.
Sundry persons approaching the tomb were thrown into convulsions, hysterics, and catalepsy; these diseases spread, became epidemic, and soon multitudes were similarly afflicted.
Catalepsy, that wondrous disease, is still thought by ignorant gossips to be the work of Satan; and hypochondriacs, uninformed by science of the nature of their malady, devoutly believe in the reality of their visions.
This organ is very sensitive, and it is said that in cases of supposed catalepsy a woman cannot bear titillation of the clitoris without some visible movement.
Dreams of distorted forms are frequently a sign of abdominal obstruction and diseases of the liver." Catalepsy, trance, and lethargy, lasting for days or weeks, are really examples of spontaneously developed mesmeric sleep in hysteric patients or subjects of incipient insanity.
Quotes with CATALEPSY (2)
Indeed, he could not be long in discovering that people beyond a suspicion of unbalance, or not obviously coveting the moment's arrest of attention gained them by their statements, never had experience with or knowledge of the restless dead. Slowly accepting this as evidence that no such things existed, Mr. Lecky found terrors deeper, and to him more plausible, to fill that unoccupied place - the simple sense of himself alone, and, not unassociated with it, the conception of …
In catalepsy and a dead trance, I studiously held the quick of my nature.
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Appears in: Universal.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2019).