Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of pantomime or dumb-show; representing characters and actions by dumb-show.
- noun A player in a pantomime.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the pantomime; representing by dumb show.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to
pantomime .
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Examples
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Yes, I said, Adeimantus; but the mixed style is also very charming: and indeed the pantomimic, which is the opposite of the one chosen by you, is the most popular style with children and their attendants, and with the world in general.
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The quick changing of the beautiful representation of "Peg Woffington," which might properly be termed a pantomimic representation of a drama, was efficiently executed, the characters all entering into the spirit, to the delight of the interested spectators.
Sixty Years of California Song Margaret Blake Alverson 1879
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Yes, I said, Adeimantus, but the mixed style is also very charming: and indeed the pantomimic, which is the opposite of the one chosen by you, is the most popular style with children and their attendants, and with the world in general.
The Republic 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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Yes, I said, Adeimantus; but the mixed style is also very charming: and indeed the pantomimic, which is the opposite of the one chosen by you, is the most popular style with children and their attendants, and with the world in general.
The Republic of Plato Plato 1763
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When the play was performed in Athens there was a place in front of the stage like half a circus ring with an altar in the middle, and the chorus had moved in some kind of pantomimic dance round that altar, but in Dublin they would have to stand side by side in the narrow space where the orchestra sits in ordinary plays and sing almost lost in shadow.
Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000
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One might chuckle at this pantomimic provocation...but what an odd and weak example to choose.
An Irish Lesson in Hope and Marketing Sam Leith 2011
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Apart from pantomimic strife — Retired — [for Young would call it so] —
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One might chuckle at this pantomimic provocation...but what an odd and weak example to choose.
An Irish Lesson in Hope and Marketing Sam Leith 2011
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Another pantomimic skit in the bathetic spectacle that is the Labour conference.
Cruising on Punternet Alix Mortimer 2009
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Another pantomimic skit in the bathetic spectacle that is the Labour conference.
Cruising on Punternet Alix Mortimer 2009
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