Convulsionary

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  • n. A convulsionist.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive.
  • n. A convulsionist.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to convulsion; of the nature of muscular convulsions: as, convulsionary struggles.
  • Causing or resulting from violent disturbance or agitation.
  • n. 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.
  • Word Usage
    "Like the old religious fetishism, with its convulsionary raptures and miraculous cures, the fetishism of commodities generates its own moments of fervent exaltation."
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