a. [f. SPASM + -IC.] Spasmodic; convulsive.
1710. T. Fuller, Pharm. Extemp., 301. The breaking off of a spasmic Paroxysme.
1868. Whitman, Chants Democratic, Poems 118. The slender, spasmic blue-white jets.
1894. A. Morrison, Mean Streets, 66. A pale little fellow with a nasty spasmic cough.
