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peripatetic
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Peripatetic may refer to: Peripatetic school , a school of philosophy in Ancient Greece Peripatetic axiom Nomad#Peripatetic minorities , a member of a community of people who move from one place to another Peripatetic Jats
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "disciple of Aristotle," from Old French perypatetique (14c.), from Latin peripateticus "pertaining to the disciples or philosophy of Aristotle," from Greek peripatetikos "given to walking about" (especially while teaching), from peripatein "walk ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ peripatetic priests who ministered to several villages ▪ a peripatetic lifestyle EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Can you take the peripatetic lifestyle that many entrepreneurs find so essential? ▪ His career in the decade ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. traveling especially on foot; "peripatetic country preachers"; "a poor wayfaring stranger" [syn: wayfaring ] n. a person who walks from place to place a follower of Aristotle or an adherent of Aristotelianism [syn: Aristotelian , Aristotelean ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peripatetic \Per`i*pa*tet"ic\, a. [L. peripateticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to walk about; ? about + ? to walk: cf. F. p['e]ripat['e]tique.] Walking about; itinerant. Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Tending to walk about. 2 Constantly travelling; itinerant; nomadic. 3 (context usually capitalized English) Having to do with Aristotle, his philosophy, or the school of thought which he founded. n. 1 One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant. ...
Usage examples of peripatetic.
Also, the more important the topic, the more peripatetic he always became, and now he paced from window to bookcase to galley kitchen, crunching kibble underneath.
Here was corroboration of his belief that the world was rotten and man a peripatetic evil.
My order requires that a peripatetic appreciate all he or she sees, on any Phylum world.
From contextual data, I must conclude that my peripatetic envoy has been kidnapped.
Until, she noted, his lander departed the peripatetic vessel to alight at Caria Spaceport.
Teeth, during Farsun Week, reached a climax today when the Planetary Prosecutor presented charges against fourteen individuals allegedly responsible for the abduction of Renna Aarons, Peripatetic Emissary from the Hominid Phylum.
Platonists, with blind devotion, adored the visions and errors of their divine master, their enthusiasm might correct the dry, dogmatic method of the Peripatetic school.
Kate Ellis and Jake Huey for enduring my absence and peripatetic schedule without complaint.
In what seems an act of misguided mercy, the names of the peripatetic lawmakers were deliberately withheld from the report.
She pointed out to this woman that not only did the condition of the flags make the store look scruffy but they were risking offending wealthy Zairean shoppers by the state of their flag and they also risked annoying peripatetic Ukrainians, whose beloved national standard, symbol of freedom, icon of the throwing off of a thousand years of Russian imperialism, was flying upside down.
A reporter made contact with her stepsister and learned that she had led a peripatetic life, with Colin often changing jobs.
From long habit, thus can peripatetic leading ladies and their sisters make themselves as comfort.
Furthermore, owing to the peripatetic nature of the continent of Capricorn there were no easily ascertainable seasons of climatic inclemency.
Swedish friend, the peripatetic Birger Dahlerus, who had flown to London from Berlin with a message for the British government from the Luftwaffe chief on the previous day.
Vulcan by that strange peripatetic species called the Preservers, perhaps not.