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Mocked by life, mankind becomes "a race of convulsionaries at the center of a cosmic farce."

From Time Magazine Archive

So that with the assistance of his possessed, his proselytes, or his convulsionaries, he procured testimonies, which from his own mouth would have been very suspicious, and might have rendered him odious.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'

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

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

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