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Definition of Spasmodically
1. Adverb. With spasms. "The mouth was slightly open, and jerked violently and spasmodically at one corner"
2. Adverb. In spurts and fits. "I began to write intermittently and spasmodically"
Definition of Spasmodically
1. Adverb. In a spasmodic manner; intermittently. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spasmodically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spasmodically
Literary usage of Spasmodically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... schools or polling places But laws were largely honored in the breach day
closing never was effective in thr cities, except spasmodically, ..."
2. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1866)
"These pains in a -Imrt time subsided, the bead became heavy, swimming, and a mist
before the eyes en?u"l The fingers and hands became so spasmodically ..."
3. The London Medical and Physical Journal (1828)
"they irritated or simply pressed those twigs between the blades of the forceps,
they observed that the muscles to which they proceeded were spasmodically ..."
4. Diseases and Enemies of Poultry by Leonard Pearson, Benjamin Harry Warren (1897)
"... turn over on its back, or it may stand upright with its legs apart, head turned
backward and the mouth and eyes open ing and closing spasmodically. ..."
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