| 释义 |
gestic, a.|ˈdʒɛstɪk|
[f. gest n.3 + -ic.]
Of or pertaining to bodily movement, esp. dancing.
Todd (1818) explains gestic in quot. 1764 as ‘legendary, historical’ (from gest n.1), and this sense of the word is given in most mod. Dicts. even when the quot. is placed under the proper sense.
1764Goldsm. Trav. 253 And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 119, Matrons..unskilled in ‘gestic lore’. 1823Scott Peveril xxx, He bore time to her motions with the movement of his foot..and seemed..carried away by the enthusiasm of the gestic art. |