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Definition of Postures
1. posture [v] - See also: posture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Postures
Literary usage of Postures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physical Expression, Its Modes and Principles by Francis Warner (1886)
"The study of postures as means of expression is, in some respects, simpler than the
... Further postures can be represented by verbal description, by casts, ..."
2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1894)
"Now bearing this principle in mind, let us apply it to some of the school-child's
favorite postures : I. John insists, when he stands for recitation, ..."
3. Physical Expression: Its Modes and Principles by Francis Warner (1885)
"postures CONSIDERED AS MEANS OF EXPRESSION. Definition of a posture—Simplicity
of study—Historical records of postures—postures of all parts—A change of ..."
4. The Diagnosis of Nervous Diseases by James Purves-Stewart (1908)
"Paralysed limbs gradually assume characteristic postures, and these postures of
organic disease are not matters of haphazard, but are determined by ..."
5. The Diagnosis of Nervous Diseases by James Purves-Stewart (1906)
"LECTURE XVII postures AND GAITS postures.—In health the posture of the body and
of its various members is determined partly by gravity, partly by the ..."
6. A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment by Andrew Comstock (1843)
"Hence its cultivation is of primary importance to those who are ambitious of
accomplishment in Elocution. CHAPTER I. postures OF THE BODY. ..."
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