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Definition of Gesticulation
1. Noun. A deliberate and vigorous gesture or motion.
Definition of Gesticulation
1. n. The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to express passion or enforce sentiments.
Definition of Gesticulation
1. Noun. The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to aid expression of thoughts, sentiments or passion. ¹
2. Noun. A gesture; a motion of the body or limbs when speaking, or in representing action or passion, and enforcing arguments and sentiments. ¹
3. Noun. Antic tricks or motions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gesticulation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gesticulation
Literary usage of Gesticulation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1874)
"... apparently, rather indefinite, requiring much facial ortion and bodily
gesticulation to make their sentences perfectly ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"As a preacher he was remarkable for his delivery, choice of expression, absence
of gesticulation, and personal exhortations of surprising force. ..."
3. The Art of Oratorical Composition: Based Upon the Precepts and Models of the by Charles Coppens (1885)
"gesticulation. 328. Gestures are motions of the body intended to add grace ...
(See on Italian gesticulation one of Cardinal Wiseman's Essays, vol. iii. p. ..."
4. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1891)
"... being perhaps interspersed; the jokes were coarse, accompanied by- lively
gesticulation, which was also obscene ; the diction bore a plebeian character. ..."
5. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D: Including A Journal of His Tour to the by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1846)
"1 [Mr. Whyte has related an anecdote of Johnson's violence of gesticulation,
which, bat for this evidence of Garrick's, one could have hardly believed. ..."
6. Curran and his contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1850)
"With a person swaying like a pendulum, and an abstracted air, he seemed always
in thought, and each thought provoked an attendant gesticulation. ..."
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