Meaning of gest | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
2. A surname.
3. An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
4. Bearing; deportment.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
5. A gesture or action.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The tales of Robin Hood, or the gests written by Ariost the Italian in his booke intituled Orlando furioso.”

“Who faire them quites, as him beseemed best, And goodly gan discourse of many a noble gest.”

“a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon And surely no Ceremonies of dedication , no not of Solomons Temple it self , are comparable to those sacred gests , whereby this place was sanctified”

“through his heroic grace and honorable gest”

“They did obeysaunce, as beseemed right, / And then againe returned to their restes: / The Porter eke to her did lout with humble gestes.”

“more Kings and Princes have written his gestes and actions, than any other historians, of what quality soever, have registred the gests, or collected the actions of any other King or Prince that ever was[…].”

“[…]Yet of your Royall presence, Ile aduenture / The borrow of a Weeke. When at Bohemia / You take my Lord, Ile giue him my Commission, / To let him there a Moneth, behind the Gest / Prefix'd for's parting: yet (good-deed) Leontes, / I loue thee not a Iarre o'th' Clock, behind / What Lady she her Lord. You'le stay?”

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