peripatetic

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  1. adjective Walking about or from place to place; traveling on foot.
  2. adjective Of or relating to the philosophy or teaching methods of Aristotle, who conducted discussions while walking about in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.
  3. noun One who walks from place to place; an itinerant.
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  • He was a peripatetic, in every way, beyond the followers of Aristotle. —  Charles Lamb
  • Glittering eyes gathered in the branches overhead as the peripatetic yet silent groats continued to pelt this temporary sanctuary with cones. —  Into the Thinking Kingdoms
  • One sort of hovered around its tenuous periphery, much as the peripatetic mosquitoes of midsummer zoned around Cawley Lake, where Marcus had pitched his tent. —  Lost And Found
  • (Footlights at that time was a bunch of nancy boys - they had this awful club where they'd all go and pretend to be Noel Coward; but when that got knocked down to build a car park, Footlights became more peripatetic, and it began to attract a broader spectrum of people.) "It was thought - especially by Douglas - that the Adams - —  Don't Panic
  • It was over. —  Sharpe's Gold
 

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  1. Middle English peripatetik, from Latin peripatēticus, from Greek peripatētikos, from peripatein, to walk about, or from peripatos, covered walk (where Aristotle allegedly lectured) : peri-, peri- + patein, to walk; see pent- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. =F. péripatétique = Spanish peripatético = Portuguese Italian peripatetico, peripatetic, from Latin Peripateticus, Peripatetic, of the Peripatetic school; as a noun, Peripateticus, a disciple of this school (in Middle Latin also simply a logician); from Greek περιπατητικός, given to walking about, especially while teaching or disputing (said of Aristotle and his followers, οί Περιπατητικοί, the Peripatetics, because Aristotle taught in the walks of the Lyceum at Athens), from περιπατεῑν, walk about (cf. περίπατος, a walking about, a public walk, especially a covered walk, hence discussion, argument), from περί, about, + πατεῑν, walk, from πάτος, a path, walk: see path. The literal sense is later in English
 

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