Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to convulsion; of the nature of muscular convulsions: as, convulsionary struggles.
- Causing or resulting from violent disturbance or agitation.
- noun pl. convulsionaries (-riz). One who is subject to convulsions; specifically [capitalized], one of a class of Jansenists in France who gained notoriety by falling into convulsive spasms and by other extravagant actions, supposed to be accompanied by miraculous cures, in response to a supposed miraculous influence emanating from the tomb of a pious Jansenist, François de Pâris, in the cemetery of St. Médard near Paris, who died in 1727. They continued to exist for more than fifty years.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A convulsionist.
- adjective Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive.
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- noun A
convulsionist .
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Examples
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Like the old religious fetishism, with its convulsionary raptures and miraculous cures, the fetishism of commodities generates its own moments of fervent exaltation.
The Society of the Spectacle – Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb) 2009
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Like the old religious fetishism, with its convulsionary raptures and miraculous cures, the fetishism of commodities generates its own moments of fervent exaltation.
2009 September 2009
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Gilboa, and a Parisian convulsionary, who scribbles ecclesiastical notices in his garret, in 1758, is wonderfully striking.
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Only yourself, and Abraham Chaumieux, the vinegar merchant and crucified convulsionary, could be capable of broaching so infamous
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And as a convulsionary lady complained that he struck too lightly to relieve the feeling of depression at her stomach, he gave her sixty blows with all his force.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various
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At considerable intervals I had two or three attacks of convulsionary fits.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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Westerner, and blend it with the history and literature of my age, and conclude it with his death, it seems like some tragic play, superior to all else I know -- vaster and fierier and more convulsionary, for this America of ours, than Eschylus or Shakespeare ever drew for
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When he was fairly mastered, after one or two desperate and almost convulsionary struggles, the ruffian lay perfectly still and silent.
Chapter LIV 1917
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On the other hand, Pascal, who did not appear in the other book, found a place in this as a curiosity; and Christophe learned by the way that the convulsionary
Jean-Christophe, Volume I Romain Rolland 1905
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I will not describe either the agitations, tremblings, palpitations, convulsionary emotions, nor faintings of the heart, I continually experienced; these may be judged of by the effect her image alone made upon me.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896
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