convulsionary
adjective
of or affected with convulsion.
convulsionaries
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pluralof convulsionary.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
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 Xavier Hommaire de Hell
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 Andrew Lang
The convulsionaries of our own days seem to have revived them; posterity will be surprised at them, as we laugh at them now.
From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Henry Christmas
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 Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach
