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gestatory, a. rare.|ˈdʒɛstətərɪ|
[ad. L. gestātōri-us, f. gestātōr-em, gestātor, one who carries, f. gestā re to carry.]
†a. Adapted for carrying or wearing (obs.).
b. Of or pertaining to carrying as a form of exercise.
a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts (1684) 90 The Crowns and Garlands of the Ancients were either Gestatory, such as they wore about their Heads and Necks [etc.]. 1804Edin. Rev. IV. 190 We shall now take leave of Dr. Jackson and his gestatory plan of cure. 1882Antiq. May 187 Gestatory garlands worn round the neck.
Restrict rare to sense in Dict. and add: Now usu. with pronunc. |dʒɛˈsteɪtərɪ|.
2. Of the nature of gestation; gestational.
1889in Cent. Dict. 1965F. Sargeson Mem. Peon iv. 86, I have noticed..that the gestatory period is quite biological. 1970B. Brewster tr. Althusser & Balibar's Reading Capital i. xvii. 60 In gestatory sciences, and a fortiori in regions still dominated by an ideological ‘knowledge’, the intervention of other practices often plays a determinant critical role which may even be revolutionary. |