pantomimical
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pantomimical (comparative more pantomimical, superlative most 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[1], section V:
- The old man, during this pantomimical conversation, in some degree recovered his spirits […].
- (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.