convulsionist

English

Etymology

From convulsion +‎ -ist.

Noun

convulsionist (plural convulsionists)

  1. Someone who has convulsions.
    1. (historical) One of a group of eighteenth-century fanatics in France who broke into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion.
      the Convulsionists of St. Médard

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