The corpus record

χειρονομ-ία

cheironomia · ἡ

shadow-boxing

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Where it lives

Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

shadow-boxing

shadow-boxing, Hp. Vict. 2.64, Antyll. ap. Orib. 6.30.1, Gal. 6.324 (pl.), etc.

II pantomimic movement, gesticulation

pantomimic movement, gesticulation, Ath. 14.631c, Plu. Es. carn. 2 2.997c, Luc. Salt. 78, Plot. 5.9.11.

III

ἐν χειρονομίαις, = ἐν χειρῶν νόμῳ (v. χείρ ΙΙ.6d), LXX 3 Ma. 1.5 (v.l. ἐν χειρῶν νομαῖς).

In the wild

χειρονομία · cheironomia Plotinus, Enneads 5.9 (DIORISIS sentence 4347)
χειρονομίαις · cheironomiais Septuaginta, Machabaeourum III 1

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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