convulsionist

== English == === Etymology === From convulsion +‎ -ist. === Noun === convulsionist (plural convulsionists) Someone who has convulsions. (historical) One of a group of eighteenth-century fanatics in France who broke into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion. === References === “convulsionist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.