gestic

American  

[jes-tik] / ˈdʒɛs tɪk /

Also gestical

adjective

1. pertaining to bodily motions, especially in dancing.

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Other Word Forms

• nongestic adjective
• nongestical adjective

Etymology

Origin of gestic

1755–65; obsolete gest deportment (< Middle French geste < Latin gestus movement of the limbs, performance, equivalent to ges-, variant stem of gerere ( see gest) + -tus suffix of v. action) + -ic

Example Sentences

Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze; And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore.

From Familiar Quotations by Bartlett, John

Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze; And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burthen of threescore.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze: And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

When I am eighty I hope to be a gay granddame skilled in gestic lore, frisking beneath the burthen of fourscore.'

From The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Arnim, Elizabeth von