Convel
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kənˈvɛl/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Convel is a verb meaning (obsolete, medicine) To tear (tissue, a nerve, etc.), to convulse.
Meaning
(obsolete, medicine) To tear (tissue, a nerve, etc.), to convulse.
More Meanings
- (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) To completely rebut, to utterly reject.
Example Sentences
[Comfrey] is a vulnerary, and is much commended to disrupted, broken, bruised and convelled members.
Choler, having allowed it a drying quality also, and having an acrimony joyned to it, may rather be allowed to create Convulsion, by contracting and convelling the Nerves.
Modesty will not allow me to repeat them [sc. obscene passages], since they defile the Air, and needs must pollute the Eyes of Readers, and Ears of Hearers, and therefore to convel and [?] them, I shall only say this[…]
The Pursuer answered, that he did not intend to Convel principally the intrinsick points of the Testimonies, but mainly to prove their partiality and corruption, and therewith also to prove their Testimonies were false, and impossible.
Word Forms
- convels
- convelling
- convelled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include convulse, avulse, divulse, enerve, vellicate, denervate.
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