jacksonian in English

adjective
1
relating to or denoting a form of epilepsy in which seizures begin at one site (typically a digit or the angle of the mouth).
She gradually deteriorated over three months and died in status epilepticus characterised by tonic seizures, seizures with Jacksonian march, and clonic jerks.

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1. Like other Jacksonian agrarians he resented the political and economic revolution then in progress.

2. 27 His political philosophy, known as Jacksonian democracy, helped solidify a strong executive branch and expand the electorate.

3. Blackface would always be Janus-faced, allowing the artist to speak freely against the interests of the powerful, a potent symbol of Jacksonian democracy

4. The Coalitionist Party was a political faction created by OmegaInvictus sometime before the Jacksonian Eras to establish a foothold against the spoils system that CSA had been operating since its creation

5. In 1946 he returned to England to take up the post of head of the nuclear physics division of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, though he also spent much of the next thirty years teaching at Cambridge where he was Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy and a fellow of Trinity College.