Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or of the nature of convulsions; cataclysmic.
- Subject to convulsions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Pertaining to, or having, convulsions; convulsionary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to, or having,
convulsions .
Etymologies
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convulsion + -al
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Examples
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I have not a thing to say; no thing is of more importance than another; I am flatter than a denial or a pancake; emptier than Judge ” ” 's wig when the head is in it; duller than a country stage when the actors are off it; a cipher, an O! I acknowledge life at all, only by an occasional convulsional cough, and a permanent phlegmatic pain in the chest.
Selected English Letters Various 1913
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