Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Relating to bodily movements or gestures, especially in dancing.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to gests; legendary; romantic.
  • Pertaining to action or motion, specifically to dancing: as, “the gestic art,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to deeds or feats of arms; legendary.
  • adjective Relating to bodily motion; consisting of gestures; -- said especially with reference to dancing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Pertaining to deeds or feats of arms; legendary.
  • adjective Relating to bodily motion; consisting of gestures.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From obsolete gest, bearing, from French geste, from Old French, from Latin gestus; see gesture.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

gest +‎ -ic. See gest a deed, gesture.

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  • A limerick’s light and domestic.

    Though hobbled by feet anapestic

    It paces and sways

    In familiar ways

    That can be beguilingly gestic.

    February 13, 2018