Word Meanings - CONVULSIONARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive. "Convulsionary struggles." Sir W. Scott.
Related words: (words related to CONVULSIONARY)
- CONVULSIVE
Producing, or attended with, convulsions or spasms; characterized by convulsions; convulsionary. An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease. Burke. - CONVULSIONARY
Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive. "Convulsionary struggles." Sir W. Scott. - CONVULSIVELY
in a convulsive manner. - SCOTTICIZE
To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish. - CONVULSIONAL
Pertaining to, or having, convulsions; convulsionary. Lamb. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - SCOTTISH
Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect. - CONVULSIONIST
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; as, the Convulsionists of St. Médard. - SCOTTISH TERRIER
See TERRIER - CONVULSION
An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body. 2. Any violent and irregular motion or agitation; a violent shaking; a tumult; a commotion. Those two massy pillars, With horrible convulsion, to and fro - SCOTTERING
The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest. - SCOTTICISM
An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson. - ANTICONVULSIVE
Good against convulsions. J. Floyer. - MASCOT; MASCOTTE
A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck. - APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach