spasmodicadj.n.

Brit.

/spazˈmɒdɪk/, U.S.

/spæzˈmɑdɪk/

Etymology: < medieval or modern Latin spasmodicus, < Greek σπασμώδης , < σπασμός or σπάσμα : see spasm n. So French spasmodique, Italian spasmodico, Spanish espasmodico, Portuguese espasmodico.

A. adj.

1. Of the nature of a spasm; characterized by spasms or convulsive twitches; marked by jerkiness or suddenness of muscular movement.

a. spec. in Pathology.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [adjective] > spasm or cramp

crampy1551

spasmous1563

spasmatic1603

spasmatical1647

spasmodic1681

spastic1753

spasmodical1766

1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Spasmodic, belonging to the cramp or convulsion, or hauling of the sinews.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Hunger,..is a Spasmodic Affection of the Fibres of the Stomach.

1786 Miss Clayton in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. III. 415 Mrs. Clayton..is extremely ill with spasmodic convulsions on her lungs.

1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 155 An attorney..was during several days afflicted..with spasmodic colics.

1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory ii. 94 The use of ipecacuan in spasmodic asthma.

1841 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion (ed. 3) ii. vi. 329 This actually happens in spasmodic cholera.

1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. xiii. 567 Spasmodic or hysterical stricture is usually met with in the young.

b. In general use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [adjective] > spasmodic

spasmic1710

subsalient1716

galvanica1807

subsaltatory1831

spasmodic1836

the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > [adjective] > muscular movement

extensive1646

abducent1649

peristaltic1652

metaleptic1656

spastic1822

spasmodic1836

ideomotor1854

idiomuscular1860

fibrillary1875

motor1878

myotatic1881

antergic1890

isometric1891

isotonic1891

neurogenic1901

synkinetic1901

ballistic1905

motoric1926

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [adjective] > spasm or cramp > marked by

spasmodic1836

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 322 He had..a somewhat spasmodic expression of countenance.

1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. (ed. 2) 606 Sometimes..the spasmodic action occurs in the pronunciation of vowels, and continuous consonants.

1884 Marshall's Tennis Cuts 191 I was startled by his firing at me, as it were a series of spasmodic winks.

2. Employed against spasms; antispasmodic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [adjective] > antispasmodic or anticonvulsant

antiepileptical1633

antiepileptic1655

anticonvulsive1696

spasmodic1728

antispasmodic1764

spasmolytic1937

anti-convulsant1946

muscle relaxant1951

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Spasmodic, something belonging to a Spasma, or Convulsion; as a Spasmodic Medicine.

3. Occurring or proceeding by fits and starts; irregular, intermittent; not sustained or kept up.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adjective] > intermittent or irregular

chopping1483

wavering1488

interpolate1547

suspensive1575

off and on1583

remitting1583

intermissive1586

fluttering1590

aguisha1602

intermittent1603

irregular1608

broken1629

intermitting1643

serratile1707

serrine1707

scattering1709

serratic1753

now-and-then1762

remittent1791

fitful1810

non-periodic1836

spasmodic1837

startful1837

interlusory1853

heterochronic1854

heterochronous1854

between-whiles1859

snatchy1861

sporadic1861

spasmodical1864

catchy1869

pauseful1877

aperiodic1879

scratchy1881

nervy1884

spurty1894

off-again on-again1923

on-again off-again1946

on-off1949

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. iii. 55 But indeed may we not regret that such conflict;..should usually be so spasmodic?

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. viii. 243 Acquiescence in disorder would be followed by a spasmodic severity.

1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. vii. 199 The spasmodic efforts of the Northumbrian Danes were checked.

4. Convulsively furious or violent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adjective] > violent at intervals or convulsive

paroxysmal1577

convulsive1615

convulsionary1798

spasmodic1841

paroxysmic1850

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iv. 224 A noble strength, very different from spasmodic violence.

1866 R. W. Dale Disc. Special Occasions x. 334 They mistake spasmodic vehemence for strength.

5. Agitated, excited; emotional, high-strung; given to outbursts of excitement; characterized by a disjointed or unequal style of expression. Spasmodic School, a name given by W. E. Aytoun to a group of poets chiefly represented by Alexander Smith, Philip James Bailey, and Sydney Dobell.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > [adjective] > given to outbursts of excitement

gusty1690

spasmodic1832

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] > disconnected

unjointed1588

disjointed1593

checkie-wise1603

rambling1632

loose1638

unconnexed1716

disconnected1777

snipped1806

dot and go one1818

spasmodic1832

spotty1843

snippety1864

rantipole1866

splathering1929

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > school of poets or poetic movement > [noun]

Lake poets1816

Lake school1816

Satanic school1821

Spasmodic School1832

imagism1912

Acmeism1913

Adamism1913

unanimism1931

ultraism1932

the Movement1954

Simultaneism1959

spatialism1964

1832 T. Carlyle Let. 28 Aug. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1977) VI. 211 Were I of the spasmodic School, I could gnash my teeth, now and then, over such a banishment: but..I reflect rather what deluges of Folly and Falsehood I stand safe from.

1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) i. 7 Miss Tox immediately became spasmodic.

1854 Aytoun in Blackwood's Mag. May 534/1 Let us see what is the practice of the poets of the Spasmodic School.

1865 Cornhill Mag. May 640 We would..ask them if they would not desire to see their daughters brought up in a simpler, less spasmodic..and morbid way?

absolute.1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth lxi I would be prose laureat, or professor of the spasmodic, or something, in no time.

B. n.

†1. plural. (See quot. 1704) Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [noun] > antispasmodic or anticonvulsant

antiepileptic1657

antispasmodic1681

spasmodics1704

anticonvellent1876

spasmolytic1937

anti-convulsant1943

anticonvulsive-

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Spasmodicks, are Medicines against Convulsions.

2. plural. Spasmodic utterances or ejaculations.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > [noun]

clepingc975

rouna1225

grede13..

voicec1375

cryc1380

outcrya1382

clepea1400

interjectionc1430

scrightc1440

yoa1475

braya1500

shout?a1513

roupingc1550

acclamation1562

outcry1587

whewing?1590

cry-out1814

redound1825

oh-ing1843

shriekc1853

ejaculation1863

blurt1864

spasmodics1865

yo-yoing1874

ejaculatory1883

yip-yipping1910

yip1911

yipping1951

1865 Sat. Rev. 11 Nov. 617 Mr. Porter's heroics and spasmodics are only excusable on the supposition that they are intended for a class of readers..who rejoice in Watts's Divine and Moral Songs.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	spasmodic
释义	spasmodicadj.n. Brit. /spazˈmɒdɪk/, U.S. /spæzˈmɑdɪk/ Etymology: < medieval or modern Latin spasmodicus, < Greek σπασμώδης , < σπασμός or σπάσμα : see spasm n. So French spasmodique, Italian spasmodico, Spanish espasmodico, Portuguese espasmodico. A. adj. 1. Of the nature of a spasm; characterized by spasms or convulsive twitches; marked by jerkiness or suddenness of muscular movement. a. spec. in Pathology. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [adjective] > spasm or cramp crampy1551 spasmous1563 spasmatic1603 spasmatical1647 spasmodic1681 spastic1753 spasmodical1766 1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Spasmodic, belonging to the cramp or convulsion, or hauling of the sinews. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Hunger,..is a Spasmodic Affection of the Fibres of the Stomach. 1786 Miss Clayton in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. III. 415 Mrs. Clayton..is extremely ill with spasmodic convulsions on her lungs. 1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 155 An attorney..was during several days afflicted..with spasmodic colics. 1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory ii. 94 The use of ipecacuan in spasmodic asthma. 1841 A. Combe Physiol. Digestion (ed. 3) ii. vi. 329 This actually happens in spasmodic cholera. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. xiii. 567 Spasmodic or hysterical stricture is usually met with in the young. b. In general use. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [adjective] > spasmodic spasmic1710 subsalient1716 galvanica1807 subsaltatory1831 spasmodic1836 the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > [adjective] > muscular movement extensive1646 abducent1649 peristaltic1652 metaleptic1656 spastic1822 spasmodic1836 ideomotor1854 idiomuscular1860 fibrillary1875 motor1878 myotatic1881 antergic1890 isometric1891 isotonic1891 neurogenic1901 synkinetic1901 ballistic1905 motoric1926 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [adjective] > spasm or cramp > marked by spasmodic1836 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 322 He had..a somewhat spasmodic expression of countenance. 1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. (ed. 2) 606 Sometimes..the spasmodic action occurs in the pronunciation of vowels, and continuous consonants. 1884 Marshall's Tennis Cuts 191 I was startled by his firing at me, as it were a series of spasmodic winks. 2. Employed against spasms; antispasmodic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [adjective] > antispasmodic or anticonvulsant antiepileptical1633 antiepileptic1655 anticonvulsive1696 spasmodic1728 antispasmodic1764 spasmolytic1937 anti-convulsant1946 muscle relaxant1951 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Spasmodic, something belonging to a Spasma, or Convulsion; as a Spasmodic Medicine. 3. Occurring or proceeding by fits and starts; irregular, intermittent; not sustained or kept up. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adjective] > intermittent or irregular chopping1483 wavering1488 interpolate1547 suspensive1575 off and on1583 remitting1583 intermissive1586 fluttering1590 aguisha1602 intermittent1603 irregular1608 broken1629 intermitting1643 serratile1707 serrine1707 scattering1709 serratic1753 now-and-then1762 remittent1791 fitful1810 non-periodic1836 spasmodic1837 startful1837 interlusory1853 heterochronic1854 heterochronous1854 between-whiles1859 snatchy1861 sporadic1861 spasmodical1864 catchy1869 pauseful1877 aperiodic1879 scratchy1881 nervy1884 spurty1894 off-again on-again1923 on-again off-again1946 on-off1949 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. iii. 55 But indeed may we not regret that such conflict;..should usually be so spasmodic? 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. viii. 243 Acquiescence in disorder would be followed by a spasmodic severity. 1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. vii. 199 The spasmodic efforts of the Northumbrian Danes were checked. 4. Convulsively furious or violent. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adjective] > violent at intervals or convulsive paroxysmal1577 convulsive1615 convulsionary1798 spasmodic1841 paroxysmic1850 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iv. 224 A noble strength, very different from spasmodic violence. 1866 R. W. Dale Disc. Special Occasions x. 334 They mistake spasmodic vehemence for strength. 5. Agitated, excited; emotional, high-strung; given to outbursts of excitement; characterized by a disjointed or unequal style of expression. Spasmodic School, a name given by W. E. Aytoun to a group of poets chiefly represented by Alexander Smith, Philip James Bailey, and Sydney Dobell. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > [adjective] > given to outbursts of excitement gusty1690 spasmodic1832 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] > disconnected unjointed1588 disjointed1593 checkie-wise1603 rambling1632 loose1638 unconnexed1716 disconnected1777 snipped1806 dot and go one1818 spasmodic1832 spotty1843 snippety1864 rantipole1866 splathering1929 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > school of poets or poetic movement > [noun] Lake poets1816 Lake school1816 Satanic school1821 Spasmodic School1832 imagism1912 Acmeism1913 Adamism1913 unanimism1931 ultraism1932 the Movement1954 Simultaneism1959 spatialism1964 1832 T. Carlyle Let. 28 Aug. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1977) VI. 211 Were I of the spasmodic School, I could gnash my teeth, now and then, over such a banishment: but..I reflect rather what deluges of Folly and Falsehood I stand safe from. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) i. 7 Miss Tox immediately became spasmodic. 1854 Aytoun in Blackwood's Mag. May 534/1 Let us see what is the practice of the poets of the Spasmodic School. 1865 Cornhill Mag. May 640 We would..ask them if they would not desire to see their daughters brought up in a simpler, less spasmodic..and morbid way? absolute.1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth lxi I would be prose laureat, or professor of the spasmodic, or something, in no time. B. n. †1. plural. (See quot. 1704) Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [noun] > antispasmodic or anticonvulsant antiepileptic1657 antispasmodic1681 spasmodics1704 anticonvellent1876 spasmolytic1937 anti-convulsant1943 anticonvulsive- 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Spasmodicks, are Medicines against Convulsions. 2. plural. Spasmodic utterances or ejaculations. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > [noun] clepingc975 rouna1225 grede13.. voicec1375 cryc1380 outcrya1382 clepea1400 interjectionc1430 scrightc1440 yoa1475 braya1500 shout?a1513 roupingc1550 acclamation1562 outcry1587 whewing?1590 cry-out1814 redound1825 oh-ing1843 shriekc1853 ejaculation1863 blurt1864 spasmodics1865 yo-yoing1874 ejaculatory1883 yip-yipping1910 yip1911 yipping1951 1865 Sat. Rev. 11 Nov. 617 Mr. Porter's heroics and spasmodics are only excusable on the supposition that they are intended for a class of readers..who rejoice in Watts's Divine and Moral Songs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1681
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