[f. SPASMOD-IC a. + -IST.] One whose work is of a spasmodic character or who affects a spasmodic style; a writer of the ‘spasmodic school.’
a. 1849. Poe, Marginalia, Wks. 1864, III. 505. De Meyer and the rest of the spasmodists.
1854. Tait’s Mag., XXI. 557. The fine frenzies of the noble new school of Spasmodists.
1878. T. Sinclair, Mount, 242. Here is the pitfall of the whole school of spasmodists who would make poetry wild ‘speaking i’ the air.’
