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peripatetic

[ per-uh-puh-tet-ik ]

adjective

  1. walking or traveling about; itinerant.

    Synonyms: vagrant, roving, wandering

  2. (initial capital letter) of or relating to Aristotle, who taught philosophy while walking in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.
  3. (initial capital letter) of or relating to the Aristotelian school of philosophy.


noun

  1. a person who walks or travels about.
  2. (initial capital letter) a member of the Aristotelian school.

Peripatetic

1

/ ˌpɛrɪpəˈtɛtɪk /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the teachings of Aristotle, who used to teach philosophy while walking about the Lyceum in ancient Athens


noun

  1. a student of Aristotelianism

peripatetic

2

/ ˌpɛrɪpəˈtɛtɪk /

adjective

  1. itinerant
  2. employed in two or more educational establishments and travelling from one to another

    a peripatetic football coach

noun

  1. a peripatetic person

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Derived Forms

  • ˌperipaˈtetically, adverb

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Other Words From

  • peri·pa·teti·cal·ly adverb
  • per·i·pa·tet·i·cism [per-, uh, -p, uh, -, tet, -, uh, -siz-, uh, m], noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of peripatetic1

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin peripatēticus < Greek peripatētikós of Aristotle and his school, literally, walking about, equivalent to peripatē- (verbid stem of peripateîn to walk about, equivalent to peri- peri- + pateîn to walk; akin to path ) + -tikos -tic

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Word History and Origins

Origin of peripatetic1

C16: from Latin peripatēticus, from Greek peripatētikos, from peripatein to pace to and fro

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Example Sentences

He played for the Bills from 2009-2012, making Buffalo one of nine stops the peripatetic quarterback has made in his 17-year career.

He showed his aptitude for it in sequences like the peripatetic swing-dance number from 1941, and the glittery Busby Berkeley-style opener of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

From Time

Even through the countless moves of my peripatetic 20s, when I crisscrossed New England with a mattress strapped to my car roof, I always had a splashing bowl squeezed between my thighs, its jittery occupant beating its fins in the rocking water.

Born into poverty, he led a peripatetic life, which included a stint in the circus.

Instead, knowing that Saudi law will force her to give up Hanadi to Muneer when she turns 7, Saeedah absconds with her daughter, embarking on a peripatetic life of deception that will haunt the three members of this small, fractured family.

Meanwhile, Al-Liby's family lived a peripatetic existence that included spells in Sudan and Qatar.

Still, Brandolini is influenced by her background and her peripatetic youth.

Jace Lacob talked to the peripatetic actress about her many TV roles.

Kim Richards is the most peripatetic of the bunch, and has moved twice since shooting The Real Housewives.

His parents were divorced, he had a peripatetic childhood, and a brother and sister both died in car accidents.

In our time there flourished at that place remarkable persons of the Peripatetic sect of philosophers, Athenæus and Xenarchus.

He used to walk about when teaching and from this circumstance his sect was called (p. 056) Peripatetic.

There was in fact an "eternal fitness" in horse and man that was not exactly a "standing joke," but a peripatetic one.

There were the Italian peripatetic vendors of weather-glasses, who had their headquarters at Norwich.

He passed for a peripatetic storehouse of anecdotes, specially crammed with old and worn-out officers stories.

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