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• n  a person suffering from catalepsy
• a  of or having characteristics of or affected with catalepsy
  cataleptic persons
  cataleptic state

• Playwright Roffey may not know much about thrillers, but he certainly can throw a cataleptic trance.
• Whether or not Yogis can "induce cataleptic rigidity in a limb or in the whole body" is irrelevant here: it would require not even an "unbelievably strong" man to stiffen .
• Rahman Bey, fakir, recently submerged himself for an hour, asserted that he owed his life to his ability to fall into a cataleptic trance.