convulsionaries
- plural of convulsionary.
Example Sentences
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Mocked by life, mankind becomes "a race of convulsionaries at the center of a cosmic farce."
From Time Magazine Archive
The wholesome sunlight burst into the room, and checked, as if by magic, the unseemly mumming of these deluded convulsionaries.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various
I have seen the whirling and howling dervishes at Constantinople, whose strange and frightful performances can be compared only to those of the medieval convulsionaries.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
These arts become lucrative and are backed by the cleverest men, and by the apparent evidence of prophecies by convulsionaries.
From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew
The convulsionaries of St. Medard, as they were called, assembled in great numbers round the tomb of their favourite saint, the Jansenist priest Paris, and taught one another how to fall into convulsions.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Mackay, Charles
