Convulsionist

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Convulsionist \Con*vul"sion*ist\, n.
     One who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in
     France, early in the eighteenth century, who went into
     convulsions under the influence of religious emotion; as, the
     Convulsionists of St. M['e]dard.
     [1913 Webster]