Definition of Postures

1. Noun. (plural of posture) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Postures

1. posture [v] - See also: posture

Lexicographical Neighbors of Postures

postulational
postulations
postulator
postulators
postulatory
postulatum
postumous
postundergraduate
postural
postural hypotension
posturally
posture
postured
posturer
posturers
postures (current term)
posturing
posturings
posturist
posturists
postvacation
postvaccinal
postvaccination
postvagotomy
postvasectomy
postverbal
postverbally
postverdict
postveto
postvictory

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 posturespostures 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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