pantomimical
adjEtymology From pantomime + -ical.
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Archaic Expressed or carried out using mime or mimicry.
- The old man, during this pantomimical conversation, in some degree recovered his spirits […].1768, Samuel Wallis, An Account of Captain Wallis's Voyage in 1766, 7, and 8, in his Majesty's ship the Dolphin, section V:
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Archaic Like or pertaining to a pantomime.
- 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.1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: