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