epilepticallyadv.
As if affected with epilepsy; because of epilepsy.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > [adverb] > spasmodically
hickingly1607
spasmodically1839
galvanically1849
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [adverb] > fit or stroke > epilepsy
epileptically1883
1883 E. C. Mann Man. Psychol. Med. xxv. 483 There are on record many homicides committed by epileptically insane persons.
1917 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures 211 The House sang at the tops and at the bottoms of their voices,..epileptically beating with their swelled feet.
1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 128 Dostoevsky..With his sham christianity Epileptically ruined The last bit of sanity..Of the Russian nobility.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
<
adv.1883