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#79202 - 08/29/02 12:30 PM gest
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 01/18/01
Posts: 13858
you know?
"Let the Queen know of our gests," Antony instructs his men after a hard-won
victory on the battlefield in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Great
deeds and heroic acts have been the stuff of gests since medieval days; in
fact, the word is more often associated with knights and heroes of old than
with modern adventurers. We may not be hearing about many 21st century
"gests," but we do frequently encounter other relatives of the word. "Gest"
traces to Latin "gestus," the past participle of the verb "gerere," which
means "to wage," "to accomplish," or "to act," among other things. That
Latin verb gave us stoutly enduring words like "gesture," "ingest," "jest,"
"register," and "suggest."
I've always spelled it as in "Beau Geste", story about French Foreign Legion
I so much enjoyed as a teen-ager.
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#196135 - 01/13/11 12:07 PM
stranger
Registered: 01/13/11
Posts: 1
Hunches don't always work.
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#196137 - 01/13/11 12:15 PM
addict
Registered: 11/17/10
Posts: 677
Loc: Middle Earth
Welcome Dundasian, to our humble abode...OK is another word with which hunches don't work...free has a most interesting etymology as well..._________________________
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#196140 - 01/13/11 01:42 PM
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Registered: 06/23/08
Posts: 5294
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WELCOME DUNDASIAN
You certainly found an old post to begin with._________________________
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#197020 - 02/04/11 11:46 PM
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Registered: 05/10/10
Posts: 691
Loc: Alaska
Peter
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#197021 - 02/05/11 01:52 AM
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 5249
Loc: Netherlands, the Hague
Quest and question both coming from quærere "seek, gain, ask.
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#197038 - 02/05/11 11:07 AM
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/23/08
Posts: 5294
Loc: Land of the Flat Water
The search for the Grail, and the Knights of Old.
Wonderful stories._________________________
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