Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
convulsionary .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word convulsionaries.
Examples
-
"convulsionaries" of a new kind, far from injuring the magnetizer or discrediting his method, added to his credit and his renown.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
-
“Encyclopædia,” it must also be confessed that the ignorance and envy which have dared to condemn this work would have covered France with opprobrium, if twelve or fifteen convulsionaries, who formed a cabal, could be regarded as the organs of France; they were really only the ministers of fanaticism and sedition; those who forced the king to dissolve the body which they had seduced.
-
Having been in the way of knowing the convulsionaries, I may say that I have seen twenty of them capable of any act equally horrid, so excessive has been their infatuation.
-
Towards the year 1750, the French nation, surfeited with tragedies, comedies, operas, romances, and romantic histories — with moral reflections still more romantic, and with theological disputes on grace and on convulsionaries, began to reason upon corn.
-
Quixote, the Comic Romance, and the convulsionaries of St. Medard, have an equal claim on our admiration and reverence.
-
The following is an extract from a sermon composed by a preacher ten years ago for the parish of St. Leu and St. Giles, which is the parish of the beggars and the convulsionaries: “Pauperes evangelicantur” — “the gospel is preached to the poor.”
-
The miracles of the convulsionaries, suppressed by the Church and smothered by the indifference of scientific men (in spite of the precious writings of the Councilor, Carre de Montgeron) were the first summons to make experiments with those human fluids which give power to employ certain inward forces to neutralize the sufferings caused by outward agents.
Ursula 2006
-
The wholesome sunlight burst into the room, and checked, as if by magic, the unseemly mumming of these deluded convulsionaries.
-
They fell into violent transports and inveighed against the pope and the bishops, as the convulsionaries of Cévennes had denounced the papacy and the Mass.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
-
There a speech from him threw his listeners into ecstasies, that have been disrespectfully compared to the paroxysms of Jansenist convulsionaries, or the hysterics of Methodist negroes on a cotton plantation.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre John Morley 1880
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.