convel

To tear (tissue, a nerve, etc.), to convulse.

[Comfrey] is a vulnerary, and is much commended to disrupted, broken, bruised and convelled members.

Choler, having allowed it a drying quality also, and having an acrimony joyned to it, may rather be allowed to create Convulsion, by contracting and convelling the Nerves.

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.

The Pursuer answered, that he did not intend to Convel principally the intrinsick points of the Testimonies, but mainly to prove their partiality and corruption, and therewith also to prove their Testimonies were false, and impossible.