incessus (noun M) : incedo
* A going, walking, pace, gait.
* Lit.
* In gen. (class.): status, incessus, sessio, accubitio, vultus, oculi, manuum motus teneant illud decorum,Cic. Off. 1, 35, 128; cf. id. Or. 18, 59: citus modo, modo tardus,Sall. C. 15, 8: fractus,effeminate, unmanly,Quint. 5, 9, 14; cf.: in incessu mollior,Ov. A. A. 3, 306: incessus Seplasia dignus,Cic. Pis. 11, 24: erectus,Tac. H. 1, 53: omnibus animalibus certus et uniusmodi incessus est,Plin. 10, 38, 54, § 111: vera incessu patuit dea,Verg. A. 1, 405: incessum fingere,Cic. Fin. 2, 24, 77; id. Cael. 20, 49: qui vultu morbum incessuque fatetur,Juv. 2, 17: tot hominum jumentorumque incessu dilapsa est (nix),the tread, trampling,Liv. 21, 36, 6: pulvis velut ingentis agminis incessu motus apparuit,id. 10, 41, 5.—Of a threatening approach (cf. B. infra): sacerdotes eorum facibus ardentibus anguibusque praelatis incessu furiali militem Romanum insueta turbaverunt specie,Liv. 7, 17, 3.—In plur., Ov. M. 11, 636
* Transf., concr., an entrance, approach: incessus hostis claudere,Tac. A. 6, 33.

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