pantomimical
Adjective
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Adjective
pantomimical
- (now, rare) Expressed or carried out using mime or mimicry. [from 17th c.]
- 1768, Samuel Wallis, An Account of Captain Wallis's Voyage in 1766, 7, and 8, in his Majesty's ship the Dolphin, section V :
- The old man, during this pantomimical conversation, in some degree recovered his spirits […].
- 1768, Samuel Wallis, An Account of Captain Wallis's Voyage in 1766, 7, and 8, in his Majesty's ship the Dolphin, section V :
- (now, rare) Like or pertaining to a pantomime. [from 18th c.]
- 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man:
- By this pantomimical contrivance, and change of scene and character, the parts help each other out in matters which neither of them singly would assume to act.
- 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man:
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