a. [-AL.] = SPASMODIC a.
1766. Smollett, Trav., I. iii. 23. I knew there was no imposthume in my lungs, and I supposed the stitches were spasmodical.
1864. Daily Tel., 29 June, 5/6. M. von Bismarck, who … made spasmodical exertions to prevent the Diet kindling into martial indignation.
Hence Spasmodicalness.
1881. P. Brooks, Candle of Lord, 130. There are two ideas which belong to the notion of vast power in our crude conceptions of it. One is spasmodicalness and the other is waste.
