semaphoric

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English

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Etymology

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From semaphore +‎ -ic.

Adjective

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semaphoric (comparative more semaphoric, superlative most semaphoric)

  1. using semaphore
  2. involving waving the arms, as if using semaphore
    • 1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass[1]:
      He was standing as he spoke, emphasising his periods with semaphoric motions of his right arm.
    • 2002 November 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Master Thief”, in Chicago Reader[2]:
      This is a cerebral take on the way hundreds of other movies have defined hysteria rather than any form of observation, a semaphoric set of signals designed to represent hysteria rather than embody it.

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