galvanic

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From French galvanique, named after Italian physiologist Luigi Aloisio Galvani (1737–1798) + -ique.

It was as though he had received a galvanic shock. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
With a start, as if shocked into galvanic motion, the boy sat upright. — The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
The galvanic battery was applied, and he suddenly expired in one of those ecstatic paroxysms which, occasionally, it superinduces. — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition: Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes, Edgar Allan Poe

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