ETYMOLOGY
from gesture + -ous
EXAMPLE
“…vvhich hath learned to spoyle & deuour folk to make vvidovves, destroy their houses, & make their Cities desert. Some be as foyinge, gesturous, and counterfeicting of any thing by ymitacion as Apes. Some Forlyke, are suttle, wylie, deceiptfull, and crafty to entrappe and catche the innocent at aduauntage…”
From: The Touchstone of Complexions
By Levinus Lemnius
Translated by Thomas Newton, 1576
Lexicophilia 