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Definition of Gesticulative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gesticulative
Literary usage of Gesticulative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elocutionary Manual: The Principles of Elocution, with Exercises and by Alexander Melville Bell (1887)
"SUMMARY OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF gesticulative EXPRESSION. 16. Motions towards
the body indicate self-esteem, egotism, or invitation ; from the body, ..."
2. The Neighbor: The Natural History of Human Contacts by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1904)
"In fact there is doubtless a great tangle of influences which have served to make
the original man, who was evidently a very gesticulative creature, ..."
3. Principles of Physiognomy and Natural Language by Samson Davis (1843)
"... and but a scanty stock of words to give it vent, mental communication is almost
entirely gesticulative, and this is commonly of a violent description. ..."
4. Modern Democracies by James Bryce Bryce (1921)
"... as in every democracy, all the lip service it can desire. But it is not a
self-assertive, obtrusive, gesticulative part of the national consciousness. ..."
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