adverb
- In a manner relating to or characteristic of catalepsy; in a state of rigid immobility or suspended consciousness.
Usage: medical/technical; rare in modern usage
Examples
- The patient lay cataleptically still, unresponsive to external stimuli.
- She stood cataleptically frozen, unable to move or speak.
- The condition caused him to remain cataleptically motionless for hours.
- Medical texts describe patients who fall cataleptically into states of apparent death.