gesticulatev.
/dʒɛˈstɪkjʊleɪt/ 1. intransitive. To make lively or energetic motions with the limbs or body; esp. as an accompaniment or in lieu of speech.
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society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > make gestures [verb (intransitive)]
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becka1300
wevec1325
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to make a countenancea1375
signc1520
token1535
gesture1542
starkle?1544
scrawl1582
gesticulate1609
annuate1623
to make a motion1719
wink1738
motion1788
1609 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 2) Gesticulate, vse much or foolish gesture.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 235 Their hands, eyes..gesticulating severally, and swimming round, and conforming themselves to a Dorique stilnesse.
1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. vi. 111 A Frenchman both varies his accents, and gesticulates while he speaks, much more than an Englishman.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. iv. 71 The gypsey remained on the shore, reciting or singing, and gesticulating with great vehemence.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. xvi. 271 Men..were standing in close couples gesticulating eagerly.
2. transitive. To indicate or express by gestures or gesticulations.
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society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > make gestures [verb (transitive)] > express or accompany by gesture
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gesture1589
gesticulate1616
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language1824
flicker1903
physicalize1947
1616 B. Jonson Poëtaster (rev. ed.) To Rdr., in Wks. I. 349 To act the crimes, these whippers reprehend, Or what their seruile apes gesticulate.
18.. S. W. Baker Heart of Afr. 227 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.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 9 Muffled phantoms of debate are made to gesticulate inexpressible things in portentously significant silence.
Derivatives
geˈsticulated adj. accompanied or varied by gesticulation.
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society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > [adjective] > expressed or accompanied by gesture
gested1587
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gesticulated1623
gestured1879
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii. A 4 b Done with Actiuity or Wantonly. Gesticulated.
1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) I. 225 The group began a wild, and to our ideas extravagantly gesticulated dance.
geˈsticulating adj. that gesticulates.
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society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > [adjective] > gesturing > given to
gesturous1576
gesticulative1795
gesticulating1817
gesticularious1830
gesticulacious1834
1817 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. III. 3 Italy, both ancient and modern, exhibits a gesticulating people of Comedians.
1850 T. De Quincey in Hogg's Instructor New Ser. 5 34/1 A gesticulating nation cannot be a dignified nation.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xiii. 97 Rounded hill slope and gesticulating tree.
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