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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to convulsion; of the nature of muscular convulsions: as, convulsionary struggles.
  • Causing or resulting from violent disturbance or agitation.
  • noun pl. convulsionaries (-riz). One who is subject to convulsions; specifically [capitalized], one of a class of Jansenists in France who gained notoriety by falling into convulsive spasms and by other extravagant actions, supposed to be accompanied by miraculous cures, in response to a supposed miraculous influence emanating from the tomb of a pious Jansenist, François de Pâris, in the cemetery of St. Médard near Paris, who died in 1727. They continued to exist for more than fifty years.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive.
  • noun A convulsionist.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A convulsionist.

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