convel

Definitions

1. To tear (tissue, a nerve, etc.), to convulse.
   obsolete
2. To completely rebut, to utterly reject.
   Scotland, obsolete

Examples

“[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.”

“Let⟳ vs come⟳ to his last⟳ exception against Doctor Humphrey, which is that hee handleth the matter⟳ artificially, to make⟳ a credulous reader beleeue that Saint Augustine himselfe doth conuell the vse of prayer for the dead by those sentences of the Apostle.”

“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.”

“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[…]”

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