Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the character of hysteria and of epilepsy; hysterically epileptiform.
- noun One who suffers from hystero-epilepsy.
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Examples
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These occasionally revealed themselves in fits of tearing rage and even hystero-epileptic attacks—both of which his intimates had good reason to fear.
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These occasionally revealed themselves in fits of tearing rage and even hystero-epileptic attacks—both of which his intimates had good reason to fear.
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Then suddenly he had a hystero-epileptic attack -- fifty hours of convulsions and ecstasy -- and when he awoke from it he was no longer paralysed, no longer acquainted with tailoring, and no longer virtuous.
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A striking instance of this was afforded by the phenomena of the hystero-epileptic attacks to which this patient was subject.
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His first interest in hysteria, dating from as far back as 1862, was in hystero-epileptic convulsive attacks, and to the last he remained indifferent to all facts which could not be objectively demonstrated.
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Even the phenomena of hypnotism date probably back some thousands of years, however difficult it may sometimes be to discriminate between the artificial hypnotic states and hysteric or hystero-epileptic occurrences in the past.
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Moreover, no hard and fast lines exist between the delusions of induced hypnotism and those of spontaneous trance, or of the grave hystero-epileptic crises which mere terror is now known to develop. "
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
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