catalepsy

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We think now he probably suffered from catalepsy, a nervous condition that causes muscular rigidity.

From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2010

"Sometimes our people get happy and skip around a bit," she said, "but . . . we don't have any catalepsy or epilepsy."

From Time Magazine Archive

Whelan scrapped the result, not for lack of merit, but because he decided it could only evoke ten show-stopping minutes of caterwauling and catalepsy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eleanor Roosevelt's frilly white collar turned to sponge; her smile froze into catalepsy.

From Time Magazine Archive

In these backwoods revival meetings we can witness to-day the weird phenomena of ungovernable shouting, ecstasy, bodily contortions, trance, catalepsy, and other results of hypnotic suggestion and the contagious one-mindedness of an overwrought crowd.

From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace