pantomimicaladj.

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 11 This was in that Pantomimicall Roscius, who could vary a thing more by gestures, then..Tully could by Phrase.

1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia ii. vi. 187 Such..seeme to have a Patent for excellent Pantomimicall utterance.

1780 T. Davies Mem. Life David Garrick (1781) I. x. 98 He [sc. Rich] applied himself to the study of pantomimical representation.

1787 Generous Attachment III. 25 Which..betrayed the rest of the company into the same pantomimical behaviour.

1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. vii. 158 Action, even pantomimical action, was not expected.

1875 A. Morgan Law of Lit. 277 These remind us of the extempore comedy and the pantomimical characters of Italy, invented by actors of genius.

1991 N. A. Krasnegor et al. Biol. & Behavioral Determinants of Lang. & Devel. 502 In these studies..no such pantomimical gestures were used to mark an absent referent.

1736 H. Fielding Pasquin v. 59 How came they to give the Name of Entertainments to their Pantomimical Farces?

1758 Herald No. 25 2 155 So pretty a farcical, operatical, pantomimical tragedy.

1813 T. Busby in tr. Lucretius Nature of Things I. iii. Comm. p. xii I might instance the constant effects of pantomimical music.

1898 W. S. Gilbert Bab Ballads 145 'Tis time to toll Thy knell, and that of follies pantomimical: A twelve weeks' run, And thou hast done All thou canst do to make thyself inimical.

1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 7 Nov. f11 Stars..bound in, wearing red-white-and-yellow chef's outfits, cook up a huge pantomimical vat of ‘super spaghetti’, and then play games with it.