convulsionary

American  

[kuhn-vuhl-shuh-ner-ee] / kənˈvʌl ʃəˌnɛr i /

adjective

1. of or affected with convulsion.

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noun

plural

convulsionaries

1. a person who has convulsions, especially as a result of religious experience.

Etymology

Origin of convulsionary

First recorded in 1735–45; convulsion + -ary

Example Sentences

As that youth was an useless, false, convulsionary, and hysterical patient, no one was likely to want to keep him, if he could do better.

From Historical Mysteries by Lang, Andrew

Madame de Stael has something of it; St. Pierre; and down onwards to the present astonishing convulsionary "Literature of Desperation," it is everywhere abundant.

From On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

At considerable intervals I had two or three attacks of convulsionary fits.

From The Opium Habit by Day, Horace B.

Certain diseases which appear to be more mental than physical sometimes occur so numerously as to assume an epidemic form, such as St. Vitus's dance, convulsionary diseases, or suicidal mania.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

Madame de Staël has something of it; St. Pierre; and down onwards to the present astonishing convulsionary ‘Literature of Desperation,’ it is everywhere abundant.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas