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Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit.

One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers.

Having a syllable or two beyond measure; as, a hypercatalectic verse.

Ill will; malice. [Obs.] Rom. of R. Spenser.

The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.

Exchange; replacement; substitution; metathesis. [R.]

Of or pertaining to a metalepsis.

Metaleptic. -- Met`a*lep"tic*al*ly, adv.

period of night; nighttime. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One of the legs of the loose drawers worn by children and women; particularly, the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural.

Placed on, or supported by, a pedestal; figuratively, exalted. Hawthorne. Pedestaled haply in a palace court. Keats.

Having petals; as, a petaled flower; -- opposed to Ant: apetalous, and much used in compounds; as, one-petaled, three- petaled, etc.

The refuse from a grain distillery, used to fatten swine.

The handle of a rake. That tale is not worth a rakestele. Chaucer.

The keeping of an alehouse by an officer of a forest, and drawing people to spend their money for liquor, for fear of his displeasure.

The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake. [Written also steal, stele, etc.] But seeling the arrow's stale without, and that the head did go No further than it might be seen. Chapman.

In a state stale manner.

To subject to a stalemate; hence, to bring to a stand.

The quality or state of being stale.

One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.