Definition of Gesturer

1. one that gestures [n -S] - See also: gestures

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gesturer

gestours
gests
gesturable
gestural
gesturalities
gesturality
gesturally
gesture
gesture politics
gestured
gestureless
gesturelike
gesturement
gesturements
gesturer (current term)
gesturers
gestures
gesturing
gesturingly
gesundheit
get
get-at-able
get-away
get-go
get-out-of-jail-free card
get-out clause
get-pennies
get-penny
get-rich-quick

Literary usage of Gesturer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"46. gesturer (jes'tür-ér), n. One who gesticulates ; an actor. [The ¡met] may likewise exercise the part of gesturer, ..."

2. Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as Representative Arts; an Essay in by George Lansing Raymond (1895)
"In the arm, this curve appears especially important, inasmuch as the slight bend at the elbow prevents the gesturer from seeming to strike beyond his reach, ..."

3. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"[The poet] may likewise exercise the part of gesturer, ae though he seemed to meddle in rude and common matters, and yet not so deale in them as it were for ..."

4. Expressive Physical Culture: Or, Philosophy of Gesture by Charles Wesley Emerson (1900)
"A gesture does not merely enable others to know what the gesturer is thinking; it influences other minds to think the thought which the gesture conveys. ..."

5. Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as Representative Arts: An Essay in by George Lansing Raymond (1895)
"In the arm, in fact, it does so in a very apparent way, inasmuch as the slight bend at the elbow prevents the gesturer from seeming to strike beyond his ..."

6. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1895)
"It gives the gesturer trains of experience of a very complex character, which are in a summary and more or less symbolic fashion similar to the primary ..."

7. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"... intention is to speak of a person entering the gesturer's own lodge, the right hand is passed under the left and toward the body, near which the left ..."

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