Definition of "gesture-language" [gesture-language]

• A language of gestures; a body of signs for thought consisting of movements of the hands, arms, etc.; sign-language. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "A large part of one of Wundt's two vast volumes on language in his "Volkerpsychologie" is concerned with gesture-language."
• "Of the part of the Letter that concerns gesture, one can only say that it appears astonishingly crude to those who know the progress that has been made since Diderot's time in collecting and generalising the curious groups of fact connected with gesture-language."
• "[2] Mr. Tylor gives an account of the Cistercian gesture-language in his ` Early History of Mankind '(2nd edit. 1870, p. 40), and makes some remarks on the principle of opposition in gestures."