Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A eonvulsionary.
- noun In geology, a catastrophist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion.
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- noun One who has
convulsions .
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Examples
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'convulsionist' orgies which, under the Regency, desecrated the tomb of
Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877
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Under desperate pressures the movement tended to change character, claimed to produce miracles, and had convulsionist manifestations.
CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968
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The same Advocate states, that sometimes the convulsionist threw the weight of her body on the swords, the hilts resting on the floor, and being secured from slipping.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various
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But, at the same time, the convulsionist receiving this vision believes it to apply to a certain person, whom he designates by name.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various
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The convulsionist continued to complain that the blows I gave her were so feeble that they procured her no relief; and she caused me to put the andiron into the hands of a large and stout man who happened to be one of the spectators.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various
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He tells us that a certain convulsionist long resisted the instinct which bade her demand the succor of a triangular-bladed sword against the left breast, fearing the result.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various
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Yet he gives no detailed proofs of prophecies touching temporal matters having been literally fulfilled, unless it be prophecies by convulsionist-patients in regard to the future crises of their diseases.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various
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The shoes caught fire, and the soles were reduced to ashes, but without the convulsionist experiencing pain in her feet, which she continued to keep for a considerable time in the fire.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various
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Let us even suppose the breast and stomach of a convulsionist protected by an artificial coating of actual gum-elastic, would it be a safe experiment to drop upon it, from a height of twelve feet, a flint stone weighing fifty pounds?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various
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One convulsionist descended the long stairs of an infirmary head-foremost, lying on her back; another caused herself to be attached, by a rope round her neck, to a hook in the wall.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various
eerainuh commented on the word convulsionist
One of a body of fanatics in France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion.
December 19, 2008
seanahan commented on the word convulsionist
Sort of like speakings in tongues?
December 28, 2008