adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a convulsive manner; spasmodically.

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1796.  Southey, Mary, Maid of Inn, 20. Her eyes from that object convulsively start.

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1802.  Med. Jrnl., VIII. 251. The larynx heaved up and down convulsively.

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1873.  Tristram, Moab, xv. 291. You clutch convulsively at the excrescences of an overhanging rock.

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1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 174. Most political changes are made blindly and convulsively.

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