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Definition of Gesticulated
1. gesticulate [v] - See also: gesticulate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gesticulated
Literary usage of Gesticulated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1876)
"Young men beat their breasts, gesticulated, and sobbed ; old men sitting more
quietly wept bitterly. How seldom do we see the aged weep ! ..."
2. The Cabinet History of England, Civil, Military and Ecclesiastical: From the by Charles MacFarlane (1851)
"... elegantly-dressed women that ran to this novelty, as to everything else that
was new and showy, he gesticulated, acted, and spoke in a frantic manner. ..."
3. History of Roman Literature from Its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age by John Colin Dunlop (1827)
"... point which first attracts our notice is that supposed separation of the
dramatic labour, by which one performer gesticulated while the other declaimed. ..."
4. History of Roman Literature from Its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age by John Colin Dunlop (1827)
"... pomt which first attracts our notice is that supposed separation of the dramatic
labour, by which one performer gesticulated while the other declaimed. ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1817)
"... with repeated declamation, \vas allowed a second-rate actor, who stood at his
buck and spoke while he gesticulated, or gesticulated while he spoke. ..."
6. The Life of James McNeill Whistler by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Joseph Pennell (1908)
"He advanced to look at the original, he grew excited, he gesticulated. ...
Ernest talked the faster, gesticulated the more wildly, until down came his thumb ..."
7. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1852)
"... and I saw that he was a venerable man, tor he was dignified and noble, and
gesticulated as never man gesticulated. LA С II А С n NN Ь . AND I saw a man ..."
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