Definition of Gestic. Meaning of Gestic. Synonyms of Gestic

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Definition of Gestic

Gestic
Gestic Ges"tic, a. [See Gest a deed, Gesture.] 1. Pertaining to deeds or feats of arms; legendary. And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore. --Goldsmith. 2. Relating to bodily motion; consisting of gestures; -- said especially with reference to dancing. Carried away by the enthusiasm of the gestic art. --Sir W. Scott.

Meaning of Gestic from wikipedia

- November 1993. Print. Quoted in Watts, Carol. "Mike Leigh's Naked and the Gestic Economy of Cinema." Women: A Cultural Review. 7.13 (1996): 271. Print. "Vote...
- method lacks the social insight and pedagogical function of Brecht's own Gestic form: "when Vakhtangov's actor says 'I'm not laughing, I'm demonstrating...
- the patriarchates of Jerusalem and Alexandria), while there was another gestic notation originally used for the asmatikon (choir book) and kontakarion...
- University of Chicago, the Serpent Players used Brecht's elucidation of gestic acting, dis-illusion, and social critique, as well as their own experience...
- gest, gestant, gestate, gestation, gestational, gestative, gestatory, gestic, gesticulant, gesticular, gesticulate, gesticulation, gestural, gesture...
- Its gestic notation was different from Middle Byzantine notation used in Italian and Athonite Kontakaria of the 13th century, where the gestic signs...
- tetartos. Kontakion of Pascha (Easter) The Slavic kondakar has the old gestic notation which referred (in the first row) to the hand signs used by the...
- sometimes evokes naivism or the grotesque, and at other times is similar to a gestic abstraction. He is also concerned with action painting, natural pigments...
- towards that action simultaneously); a fabel indicates the sequence of gestic episodes that constitute the dramatic or theatrical narrative. Carl Weber...
- Brecht's most significant theatrical techniques that combines the use of gestic expression and social meaning within a certain movement, vocal display or...