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Word Meanings - CONVULSIONARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to convulsion; convulsive. "Convulsionary struggles." Sir W. Scott.

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  • 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

 

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