English Explanatory Dictionary

convulsionist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone who has convulsions.
  2. One of a group of eighteenth-century fanatics in France who broke into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion.

Word forms

convulsionist convulsionists

Etymology

From convulsion + -ist.

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