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gestural, a.|ˈdʒɛstjʊrəl|
[f. next + -al1.]
Of or pertaining to gesture; consisting of gestures. spec. Designating or pertaining to the theory that human speech originated in oral imitation of bodily gestures. Hence ˈgesturally adv.
1613F. Robartes Revenue Gosp. 23 The verball or gesturall honour which many men..performe to Ministers, is the very same which the Iewes or Iudas did to Christ. 1837Penny Cycl. VIII. 329/1 Thus it is with the naturally deaf, the radical idea is all that their gestural language is capable of expressing. 1895J. D. Wright in Proc. 14th Convent. Amer. Instruct. Deaf 233 In the cases [deaf and blind] in the New York Institution, gestural signs were used to some extent combined with the manual alphabet. 1930R. Paget Babel iii. 84 The American twang..is mainly due to a tightening of the pharynx, and has nothing to commend it on gestural or phonetic grounds. Ibid., Each word should, so far as possible, be gesturally appropriate to its meaning. 1941D. Efron Gesture & Environment ii. iii. 95 This gestural vocabulary comprehends no less than 125 manual ‘words’, implying definite meaningful associations. 1949Trans. Philol. Soc. 1948 49 The Gestural Theory is largely linked with the name of Sir Richard Paget. 1957D. L. Bolinger in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxviii. 11 Wonder is a borderline case when it precedes. Gesturally it is often treated as a Q[uestion], but intonationally it usually is not. 1966Listener 2 June 814/3 The Sette peccati..represents each of the seven deadly sins gesturally on the stage. |