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spasmodically, adv.|spæzˈmɒdɪkəlɪ|
[-ly2.]
1. Path. By means of, with the accompaniment of, a spasm or spasms.
1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 251 The use of this [julep] is indicated..when the Spirits..are spasmodically exploded. 1763Phil. Trans. LIII. 11 The Temporal and Masseter muscles..were tense, hard, and spasmodically affected. 1814J. Burns Princ. Midwifery (ed. 3) 391 The uterus may contract spasmodically. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 683 On attempting to take fluids, they..were..spasmodically rejected.
2. In a jerky or sudden manner.
1839Dickens Nich. Nick. xl, Poor Noggs..moved spasmodically in his chair. 1864F. W. Robinson Mattie, a Stray III. 114 Causing innumerable articles in the glass cases thereon to jump spasmodically with the shock.
b. With convulsive effort or violence.
1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 276 A human soul is seen clinging spasmodically to an Ark of the Covenant. 1851De Quincey Ld. Carlisle on Pope Wks. 1859 XIII. 27 Pope obeyed, spasmodically, an overmastering febrile paroxysm. 1880Flor. Marryat Fair Alda II. i. 23 She clung to him spasmodically.
3. By fits and starts; irregularly, intermittently.
1878Huxley Physiogr. 190 The steam generally issues spasmodically. 1882Standard 30 Dec. 2/2 If rates went up for a few days they did so spasmodically. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 599 The men then gradually go off to sleep, breaking out now and again spasmodically into little rows over a pipe. |