peripatetic

comparative more peripatetic · superlative most peripatetic · alternative obsolete peripatetick · alternative Peripatetic

1. Tending to walk about.
2. Constantly travelling.

   Near-synonyms: itinerant, nomadic

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   After peripatetic upbringing that took her from America to Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium and England, [Mary-Kay] Wilmers read French and Russian at Oxford.

   2014 March 9, Elizabeth Day, “Is the LRB the best magazine in the world?”, in The Observer

   Synonyms: itinerant, nomadic

3. capitalizedusuallyhuman sciencesAlternative letter-case form of Peripatetic.

   The true peripatetic school.

   1642, James Howell, Instructions For Foreign Travel

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   Demetreius of Phalerum, a peripatetic philosopher of the fourth century B.C., wrote an amatory treatise entitled Eroticus - no longer, however, extant.

   1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 75

plural peripatetics · alternative obsolete peripatetick · alternative Peripatetic

1. One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.

   Synonyms: wayfarer, itinerant, pedestrian, nomad

2. capitalizedusuallyhuman sciencesAlternative letter-case form of Peripatetic (“Aristotelian”).

   He who would think clearly must think like a peripatetic even if he is unwilling to walk like one.

   1961, Albert Upton, Design for Thinking: A First Book in Semantics, section 11

plural Peripatetics · alternative obsolete Peripatetick · alternative peripatetic

1. historicalA disciple of Aristotle.

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   And though it be True indeed, that some Aristotelians have occasionally written against the Chymical Doctrine he Oppugnes, yet since they have done it according to their Principles, And since our Carneades must as well oppose their Hypothesis as that of the Spagyrist, he was fain to fight his Adverfaries with their own Weapons, Those of the Peripatetick being Improper, if not hurtfull for a Person of his Tenents ; besides that those Aristotelians, (at Least, those he met with,) that have written against the Chymists, seem to have had so little Experimental Knowledge in Chymical Matters, that by their frequent Mistakes and unskilfull way of Oppugning, they have too often expos'd Themselves to the Derision of their Adversaries, for writing so Confidently against what they appear so little to understand.

   1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, p. A5(r)

   Synonyms: Aristotelian

alternative obsolete Peripatetick · alternative peripatetic

1. not comparableOf or pertaining to the philosophy or methods of Aristotle, or to his followers.

   Synonyms: Aristotelian