gesturationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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gesturation (countable and uncountable, plural gesturations)

1. (rare) Gesture.
   • 1917, Wilfred Owen, “Letter to Susan Owen dated 10 September, 1917”, in Complete Works, UK: Delphi Classics, published 2012:

     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.

   • 1927, L. C. Hiegel, The Four Episodes of Life‎, page 165:

     [Hippocrates] reduced his remedies to five, which were abstinence from flesh, abstinence from wine under certain circumstances, friction, walking and gesturation, or body exercises […]

   • 2009, “Introduction”, in Stanley Sadie, editor, The Grove Book of Operas‎, page xv:

     […] 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 expression in lieu of any conventionalized emotion.