ppl. a. [f. prec. vb. + -ED1; or perh. f. L. convuls-us + -ED1, before the vb. was in use.] Affected with convulsion; violently agitated or disturbed.
1632. trans. Bruel’s Praxis, M. 228. Good for the conuulsed parts.
1796. Wilkes, Corr. (1805), IV. 211. In the present convulsed situation of Europe.
1885. F. D. Storey in Atlantic Monthly, April, 475/1. Convulsed torrents of matter in igneous fusion … rolling in all directions.
