- Convulsionist
- Convulsionist Con*vul"sion*ist, n. 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. M['e]dard. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.