"catalepsy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: catalepsies [plural]
Etymology: From cata- + -lepsy; ultimately from Ancient Greek κατάληψις (katálēpsis, “act of seizing”), from καταλαμβάνω (katalambánō, “I seize”), from κατά (katá, “against”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”). Etymology templates: {{confix|en|cata|lepsy}} cata- + -lepsy, {{der|en|grc|κατάληψις|t=act of seizing}} Ancient Greek κατάληψις (katálēpsis, “act of seizing”), {{compound|grc|κατά|λαμβάνω|nocat=1|t1=against|t2=I take}} κατά (katá, “against”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} catalepsy (plural catalepsies)
  1. (pathology) A severe bodily condition, described in psychiatric pathology, marked by sudden rigidity, fixation of posture, and loss of contact with environmental conditions. Categories (topical): Pathology Synonyms: catalepsis [dated] Derived forms: cataleptic, cataleptoid, hysterocatalepsy Related terms: catatonic, catatonia Translations (catalepsy): تَخَشُّب (taḵaššub) [masculine] (Arabic), կատալեպսիա (katalepsia) (Armenian), katalepsia (Basque), каталепсія (kataljepsija) [feminine] (Belarusian), вцепеняване (vcepenjavane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), каталепсия (katalepsija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), catalèpsia [feminine] (Catalan), katalepsie [feminine] (Czech), katalepsi [common-gender] (Danish), catalepsie [feminine] (Dutch), katalepsie [feminine] (Dutch), katalepsio (Esperanto), katalepsia (Estonian), katalepsia (Finnish), catalepsie [feminine] (French), catalepsia [feminine] (Galician), Katalepsie [feminine] (German), Starrsucht [feminine] (German), καταληψία (katalipsía) [feminine] (Greek), katalepsio (Ido), katalepsi (Indonesian), catailéipse [masculine] (Irish), catalessi [feminine] (Italian), catalessia [feminine] (Italian), カタレプシー (katarepushī) (Japanese), catalepsis [feminine] (Latin), katalepsija [feminine] (Latvian), katalepsija [feminine] (Lithuanian), katalepsija [feminine] (Lower Sorbian), چوبوارگی (čub-vâregi) (Persian), katalepsja [feminine] (Polish), catalepsia [feminine] (Portuguese), catalepsie [feminine] (Romanian), каталепси́я (katalepsíja) [feminine] (Russian), каталѐпсија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), katalèpsija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), catalessi [feminine] (Sicilian), catalissìa [feminine] (Sicilian), katalepsia [feminine] (Slovak), katalepsija [feminine] (Slovene), catalepsia [feminine] (Spanish), katalepsi [common-gender] (Swedish), каталепсія (katalepsija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), katalepsija [feminine] (Upper Sorbian), каталепсия (katalepsiya) [Cyrillic] (Uzbek), katalepsiya [Roman] (Uzbek), chứng bắt thế (Vietnamese)
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      "word": "cataleptic"
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          "ref": "1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"But they could not have been asleep!\" cried Lord John. \"Dash it all, Challenger, you don't mean to believe that those folk were asleep with their staring eyes and stiff limbs and that awful death grin on their faces!\" \"It can only have been the condition that is called catalepsy,\" said Challenger.",
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          "ref": "1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 190:",
          "text": "I was furious with Edgar Allan Poe for writing so accurately about this. His tales of catalepsy and live burial poisoned my childhood, and still killed me.",
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      "word": "catalepsis"
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      "lang": "Arabic",
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      "sense": "catalepsy",
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "تَخَشُّب"
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      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "word": "կատալեպսիա"
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      "word": "katalepsia"
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      "roman": "kataljepsija",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "da",
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      "code": "de",
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      "word": "Katalepsie"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
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      "word": "Starrsucht"
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "katalipsía",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "καταληψία"
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      "code": "io",
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      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "word": "katalepsio"
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      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "word": "katalepsi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "catailéipse"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "catalessi"
    },
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "catalepsy",
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      "word": "catalessia"
    },
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      "code": "ja",
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      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "word": "カタレプシー"
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
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      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "katalepsija"
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      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "katalepsija"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "čub-vâregi",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "word": "چوبوارگی"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "katalepsja"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "catalepsia"
    },
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "catalepsie"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "katalepsíja",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "каталепси́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "каталѐпсија"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
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        "Roman",
        "feminine"
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      "word": "katalèpsija"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "catalessi"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "catalissìa"
    },
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      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "katalepsia"
    },
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      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "katalepsija"
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      "code": "dsb",
      "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "katalepsija"
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      "code": "hsb",
      "lang": "Upper Sorbian",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "katalepsija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "catalepsia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "katalepsi"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "katalepsija",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "каталепсія"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "roman": "katalepsiya",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "каталепсия"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "katalepsiya"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "catalepsy",
      "word": "chứng bắt thế"
    }
  ],
  "word": "catalepsy"
}

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