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convulsive, a. (n.)|kənˈvʌlsɪv|
[ad. L. type *convulsīv-us (prob. in med. or mod.L. of medicine), f. convuls- ppl. stem + -ive. Cf. mod.F. convulsif, -ive. (not in Cotgr. 1611).]
1. Of the nature of convulsion; characterized or accompanied by convulsion.
1615Crooke Body of Man 250 There is a threefold motion of the wombe, one altogether naturall, another altogether Symptomicall and Convulsiue. 1701Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. v. i, I cannot bear These fierce convulsive Starts. 1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 277 Spasmodic or convulsive affections. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 397 The hand that trembled in his grasp Was crushed by his convulsive clasp. 1864N. Syd. Soc. Year-Bk. for 1863, 94 On the Therapeutical value of Cod-liver Oil in Chronic Convulsive Diseases.
b. fig.: cf. convulsion 3.
a1797Wilkes Corr. (1805) V. 187 England has continued..to oppose the ambitious views of France; except during two short, critical, and convulsive intervals. 1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. x. 421 To prevent convulsive and perilous reforms. 1869Phillips Vesuv. viii. 243 Earth-movements of the convulsive kind we call earthquakes.
2. Affected with convulsion (lit. and fig.).
1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. vii. 249 Subterraneous Streams issuing from an Hiatus of a convulsive Mountain. 1725Pope Odyss. iv. 952 Rolling convulsive on the floor. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xviii. 142 Suddenly becoming convulsive and making an effort to tear her front off.
3. Productive of convulsion; tending to convulse.
a1700Dryden (J.), Convulsive rage possess'd Her trembling limbs, and heav'd her lab'ring breast. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. xxv. 760 His whole frame was agitated with convulsive passion. 1844Stanley Arnold (1858) I. vi. 233 Nothing so..convulsive to society, as the strain to keep things fixed.
†B. n. A drug that causes ‘convulsion’ or contraction (see convulsion 2 a). Obs.
1725Bradley Fam. Dict. II. s.v. Tumour, You must neither use Convulsives nor Repercusives. |