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gesticulate, v.|dʒɛˈstɪkjʊleɪt|
[f. L. gesticulāt-, ppl. stem of gesticulāri, f. gesticulus, dim. of gestus action, gesture (see gest n.3).]
1. intr. To make lively or energetic motions with the limbs or body; esp. as an accompaniment or in lieu of speech.
1613R. Cawdrey Table Alph. (ed. 3), Gesticulate, vse much or foolish gesture. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. 235 Their hands, eyes..gesticulating severally, and swimming round, and conforming themselves to a Dorique stilnesse. 1783Blair Lect. Rhet. vi. I. 111 A Frenchman both varies his accents, and gesticulates while he speaks, much more than an Englishman. 1815Scott Guy M. iv, The gipsy remained on the shore, reciting or singing, and gesticulating with great vehemence. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola i. xvi, Men..were standing in close couples gesticulating eagerly.
2. trans. To indicate or express by gestures or gesticulations.
1601B. Jonson Poetaster Apol. Dial., To act the crimes, these Whippers reprehend, Or what their servile apes gesticulate. 18..Baker Heart of Africa 227 (Cent.) The whole day passed in shouting and gesticulating our peaceful intentions to the crowd assembled on the height on the opposite side of the river. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 9 Muffled phantoms of debate are made to gesticulate inexpressible things in portentously significant silence.
Hence geˈsticulated ppl. a., accompanied or varied by gesticulation; geˈsticulating ppl. a., that gesticulates.
1623Cockeram ii. A 4 b, Done with Actiuity or Wantonly. Gesticulated. 1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1859) II. 117 Italy, both ancient and modern, exhibits a gesticulating people of comedians. 1816Keatinge Trav. (1817) I. 225 The group began a wild, and to our ideas extravagantly gesticulated dance. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xiii. (1856) 97 Rounded hill slope and gesticulating tree. 1858De Quincey Fr. & Eng. Mann. Wks. IX. 105 A gesticulating nation cannot be a dignified nation. |