convelling

Verb

convel (third-person singular simple present convels, present participle convelling, simple past and past participle convelled)

1. (obsolete) To tear (tissue, a nerve, etc.), to convulse.
   • [Comfrey] is a vulnerary, and is much commended to disrupted, broken, bruised and convelled members.1657, Jean de Renou, translated by Richard Tomlinson, A medicinal dispensatory, Medicinal Materials, Book 1, section 5, chapter 10, page 353
2. (Scotland, obsolete) To completely rebut, to utterly reject.
   • 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.1628, Richard Field, Of the Church fiue bookes, Appendix, part 1, book 2, section 8, page 793