gest

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /d͡ʒɛst/    美 /d͡ʒɛst/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — The tales of Robin Hood, or the gests written by Ariost the Italian in his booke intituled Orlando furioso.
  2. Alternative form of gist (“a stop for lodging or rest in a journey, or the place where this happens; a rest”). alt-of,alternative,obsolete
    — […]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?
  3. An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — 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
  4. Bearing; deportment. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — through his heroic grace and honorable gest
  5. A gesture or action. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — They did obeysaunce, as beseemed right, / And then againe returned to their restes: / The Porter eke to her did lout with humble gestes.

词形变化

gests plural gests plural

词汇关系

衍生词
gested gestic

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Middle French geste. Doublet of jest.
词源 2
A variant of gist (“resting-place”).
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