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Definition of Gesticulate
1. Verb. Show, express or direct through movement. "He gestured his desire to leave"
Specialized synonyms: Wink, Exsert, Extend, Hold Out, Put Out, Stretch Forth, Stretch Out, Shrug, Clap, Spat, Acclaim, Applaud, Clap, Spat, Bless, Sign, Nod, Cross Oneself, Bow, Bow Down, Shake, Beckon, Wave
Generic synonyms: Communicate, Intercommunicate
Derivative terms: Gesticulation, Gesture, Gesture, Gesture, Gesture, Motion
Definition of Gesticulate
1. v. i. To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.
2. v. t. To represent by gesture; to act.
Definition of Gesticulate
1. Verb. (intransitive) To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To say or express through gestures. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gesticulate
1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gesticulate
Literary usage of Gesticulate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"Gesture, vn gesticulate, make gestures. Get, va I. Procure, obtain, acquire,
gain, win, earn, ... gesticulate, vn Make gestures, gesture. Gesticulation, я. ..."
2. An English Grammar Conformed to Present Usage: With an Objective Method of by Alfred Holbrook (1873)
"gesticulate LANGUAGE.—Any method of communicating or impressing thought or feeling,
by motions, postures, or appearances of the animal form, not producing ..."
3. The Tyro's Greek and English Lexicon: Or a Compendium in English of the ...by John Jones, Christian Tobias Damm, Friedrich Wilhelm Struz, Johann Friedrich Schleusner, Johann Schweighäuser by John Jones, Christian Tobias Damm, Friedrich Wilhelm Struz, Johann Friedrich Schleusner, Johann Schweighäuser (1825)
"... f. ива, move the hands agreeably to a certain law, as in boxing or dancing,
gesticulate, 2. 2. 19. use the legs as if they were the hands, Herod. 6. ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Eng. Traits, xiii. gesticulate (jes-tik'û-lât), r., prêt, ... [< gesticulate
+ -or^.] Of or pertaining to gesticulation ; representing by gestures. ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"See Gerund and gesticulate. gesticulate, to make gestures. (L.) 'Or what their
servile apes gesticulate ; ' Ben Jonson, Poetaster, To the Reader (an ..."
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