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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The philosophical doctrines of Aristotle and his followers. the philosophy of the Peripatetics. See Aristotelianism.
- n. [lowercase] The practice of walking to and fro; pedestrianism.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The doctrines or philosophical system of the peripatetics. See peripatetic, n., 2.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science
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“Hence peripateticism, the philosophy of Aristotle, as he was said to have taught in the walks of the Lyceum at Athens.”
“While I've passed many a merry hour in fair Iraq, my peripateticism there has been limited to its terrestrial surfaces.”
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