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Definition of Convulsionary
1. a. Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive.
2. n. A convulsionist.
Definition of Convulsionary
1. Noun. A convulsionist. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Convulsionary
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Convulsionary
Literary usage of Convulsionary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of by John Henry Blunt (1874)
"The wiser Appellants saw the danger of these exhibitions, and seceded from the
convulsionary faction. The Jesuits exerted the whole force of their powerful ..."
2. An History of Magic, Witchcraft, and Animal Magnetism by John Campbell Colquhoun (1851)
"... antagonist of the convulsions—by placing upon the body of the convulsionary,
who lay upon the ground, a plank, or board, which entirely covered her; ..."
3. Things New and Old for the Glory of God and Everlasting Benefit of All who by Albert Welles (1845)
"Christianity; and of the convulsionary revolutions its introduction produced.
This, was in every respect, a most interesting period. It was the one, ..."
4. Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1892)
"A convulsionary bends back into an arc, her loins supported by the sharp point
of a peg," quotes the learned author, from the proces verbaux. ..."
5. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1900)
"In spite of Hume and Voltaire, they founded a monastical and convulsionary sect,
and triumph through austerity, and exaggeration, which would have ruined ..."
6. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"... brought into or confirmed in the condition of a ' convulsionary,' was ready
to pass from patient into doctor.2 Again, at the Winnebago medicine-feast, ..."
7. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"There is a good deal of sly satire in the apologue which might be applied to
many (especially French) literary and pictorial artists of the convulsionary ..."
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