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semaphoric en · ADJ

Etymology

From semaphore + -ic.

Meanings

1. using semaphore
2. involving waving the arms, as if using semaphore
   • This is a cerebral take on the way hundreds of other movies have defined hysteria rather than any form of observation, a semaphoric set of signals designed to represent hysteria rather than embody it. 2002 November 8, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Master Thief”, in Chicago Reader:
   • He was standing as he spoke, emphasising his periods with semaphoric motions of his right arm. 1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass:

Forms

Deriveds

semaphorically