Gest

[dʒest]

Definition

(n.) A guest.

(n.) Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure.

(n.) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.

(n.) A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story.

(n.) Gesture; bearing; deportment.

(n.) A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest.

(n.) A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office.

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Definition

n. (Shak.). Same as Gist.

n. an exploit: demeanour bearing: a tale of adventure a romance.—Gesta Romanorum ('deeds of the Romans') the title of a collection of short stories and legends in Latin with moralisations appended which probably took its present form in England about the beginning of the 14th century.

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