Lexicographical Neighbors of Gesturers
Literary usage of Gesturers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... tumblers and gesturers, some jugglers, & legier du maine players, wyth a great
rablemente of other ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1880)
"Instances are shown of the discontinuance of gesture-speech with no development
in the native language of the gesturers, but from the invention for ..."
3. Introduction to the Study of Sign Language Among the North American Indians by Garrick Mallery (1880)
"... roots in the speech of the gesturers, may aid to ascertain some relation
between concrete ideas and words ..."
4. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1880)
"... studied together with the holophrastic roots in the speech of the gesturers,
may aid to ascertain some relation between concrete ideas and words. ..."
5. Proceedings of the Meeting of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf by Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf (1887)
"... as " gesturers " make of •"gesture." Some of the disjointed language that our
pupils so often produce, seems to bear a closer likeness to the idiom of ..."
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