gesturation

Gesture.

Noun

  1. Gesture.
    • Poor Mayes overdid himself and has lost his speech. Came up to my room and woke me up this morning with appealing eyes and curious gesturations. - 1917, Wilfred Owen, “Letter to Susan Owen dated 10 September, 1917”, in...
    • [Hippocrates] reduced his remedies to five, which were abstinence from flesh, abstinence from wine under certain circumstances, friction, walking and gesturation, or body exercises […] - 1927, L. C. Hiegel, The Four...
    • […] the characters in [Robert Wilson’s] productions can hardly be said to express a personal psychology; instead, they are ciphers of a remote mode of gesturation. Put otherwise: his figures might be said to express...

Origin

From gesture + -ation

Forms

gesturations