cataleptic

He thumps his chest in anger, and roars and quivers with cataleptic ferocity.

As a promising way of setting them right, half of the half-dozen had become members of a fantastic sect of Convulsionists, and were even then considering within themselves whether they should foam, rage, roar, and turn cataleptic on the spot--thereby setting up a highly intelligible finger-post to the Future, for Monseigneur's guidance.

It was at this point in their history that Silas's cataleptic fit occurred during the prayer-meeting; and amidst the various queries and expressions of interest addressed to him by his fellow-members, William's suggestion alone jarred with the general sympathy towards a brother thus singled out for special dealings.

Finally, becoming cataleptic, she has to be carried up the narrow staircase like a grand piano.

He thought her insensibility was caused by a sort of cataleptic seizure.

The waiter, after standing for some seconds rigid, like a cataleptic, turned round and ran madly out of the room.

A momentary silence that ensued was broken by Mr F.'s Aunt, who had been sitting upright in a cataleptic state since her last public remark.

The cataleptic signs in rodents can be matched to the Parkinson-like extrapyramidal adverse effects in human seen clinically with administration of antipsychotic medicines.

Kondziela's inverted screen test and inclined plane test were also carried out to determine the muscular strength and cataleptic effects respectively following rotenone administration.