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gesticulari

gesticulari [CL], ~are 1 to gesticulate, make (wild) movements; b (fig.). ~ari, diversis motibus agitari Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 261; cum ‥ huc illucque tamquam ebrius ‥ nutandus abire temptaret ‥ et ‥ quidnam sibi esset ut ita ~aretur ‥ inquirerent ‥ circumstantes Ad. Eyns. Hug. V 20 p. 230.  b [vinum] sumptum descendat [v. l. decendat] impetuose ad modum fulminis, ‥ ~ans [gl.: salliaunt] ad modum caprioli Neckam Ut. 103. 2 (?) to enact (story). historia dicitur ab ‘ystoron’ [? ἱστορεῖν] quod est videre vel ~are; narrat enim tantum de eis que gesta sunt et visa S. Langton Gl. Hist. Schol. 43 (cf. Docking 108 (v. historia 4)). 3 (pr. ppl.) juggler. scio quid fieret de cancellario si ‥ inter manus ~antis devenisset in pomum Devizes 33v.

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