CATALEPSY,. A sudden suppression of motion and sensation, a kind of apoplexy, in which the patient is speechless, senseless, and fixed in one posture, with his eyes open, without seeing or understanding. The word is applied also to a retention of the breath or of the humors, and to the interception of the blood by bandages.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.