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US
/ˌpɛɹəpəˈtɛtɪk/
]
[ UK /pˌɛɹɪpɐtˈɛtɪk/ ]
[ UK /pˌɛɹɪpɐtˈɛtɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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traveling especially on foot
peripatetic country preachers
a poor wayfaring stranger -
of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy
Aristotelean logic
NOUN
- a person who walks from place to place
How To Use peripatetic In A Sentence
- Brooks managed to squeeze 'peripatetic', 'equanimity', 'homeostasis', 'sojourner', 'grandiloquent' and 'didactic' into the brief 850 word article on the inner workings of Obama's mind, exposing a fragile psyche of his own, and a desperate need to validate his position as a national talking head. Ben Cohen: David Brooks and Big Words
- Oddly, it's insanely comfortable, and this kind of peripatetic lifestyle (while anathema to my wife) totally fits my A.D.D. quest for constant adventure. Lucy van pelt holds the football
- A wolf, likes peripatetic wandering around lonely and prefers listening to the song.
- Mulla Sadra inherited a variety of theories ranging from Platonic recollection (anamnesis) and division to Peripatetic syllogistics, definitions and axiomatic science. Mulla Sadra
- Contributing to the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus were — besides Plato (read very selectively) and the Platonist and Neo-Pythagorean commentators on his thought — a constructively critical consideration of Aristotle and his Peripatetic commentators and an influence, deep at some points, of Stoic ideas which Plotinus 'conscious and frequently expressed hostility to Stoic corporealism could not overcome. NEO-PLATONISM
- And he has a dog - a large and very unpoodle-ish poodle - a sign that the peripatetic lifestyle of yore has slowed down considerably.
- The problem of educating the peripatetic children who lived on the canal boats was formidable.
- Since the household was peripatetic, none of these words denotes a room or a building.
- Before establishing the poetry workshop Liz worked - in the late 1970s and 80s - as a peripatetic teacher of the deaf.
- There are delightful libraries, more aromatic than stores of spicery; there are luxuriant parks of all manner of volumes; there are Academic meads shaken by the tramp of scholars; there are lounges of Athens; walks of the Peripatetics; peaks of Parnassus; and porches of the Stoics. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury