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pantoˈmimical, a. Now rare.
[See -ical.]
1. Of, belonging to, or of the nature of pantomime or dumb show.
1644Bulwer Chiron. 11 This was in that Pantomimicall Roscius, who could vary a thing more by gestures, then..Tully could by Phrase. 1649― Pathomyot. ii. vi. 187 Such..seeme to have a Patent for excellent Pantomimicall utterance. 1780T. Davies Garrick (1781) I. x. 98 He [Rich] applied himself to the study of pantomimical representation. 1787Generous Attachment III. 25 Which..betrayed the rest of the company into the same pantomimical behaviour. 1824Scott St. Ronan's xx, Action, even pantomimical action, was not expected.
2. = pantomimic a. 2.
1736Fielding Pasquin v. i. How came they to give the name of entertainments to their pantomimical farces? 1808Mem. Female Philos. I. 106 That..for which she had the greatest predilection, was pantomimical dancing. 1813T. Busby Lucretius I. iii. Comm. p. xii, I might instance the constant effects of pantomimical music.
Hence pantoˈmimically adv., in a pantomimic manner; by way of pantomime.
1839Lady Lytton Cheveley (ed. 2) III. iv. 99 Pushing over a banker's book..on which he began to write pantomimically. 1884Collingwood Under Meteor Flag 27 Perched on the crosstrees, from which..position he reminded me pantomimically of the potent charm to be found in a comic song. |