单词 | convulsionist |
释义 | convulsionistn. 1. = convulsionary n.; also used of other religious enthusiasts. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > convulsionism > [noun] > person convulsionary1741 convulsionist1865 1865 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Were-wolves iv. 40 As insensible to pain as the Jansenist convulsionists of S. Medard. 1879 M. Oliphant Hist. Reign George II II. 59 Wesley and his brethren threw themselves on their knees round the Convulsionist. 2. Geology. One who holds that the great geological changes were produced by violent convulsions or upheavals; = catastrophist n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > theory of formation of earth > theorist > [noun] > violent disturbance catastrophist1837 cataclysmatist1855 convulsionist1880 cataclysmist1887 catastrophizer1902 1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life 216 Upholding the soundness of the views of the ‘Uniformitarians’ as opposed to the ‘Convulsionists’. 1881 Geikie in Macmillan's Mag. July 229/2. 1888 Q. Rev. 166 113. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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