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- proper noun Obsolete spelling of
Peripatetic .
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Examples
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Affected obscurity, as in the Peripatetick and other sects of philosophy.
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Who is there that has been bred up in the Peripatetick philosophy, who does not think the Ten Names, under which are ranked the Ten Predicaments, to be exactly conformable to the nature of things?
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Though the Peripatetick philosophy has been most eminent in this way, yet other sects have not been wholly clear of it.
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Though the Peripatetick philosophy has been most eminent in this way, yet other sects have not been wholly clear of it.
God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005
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_The Matter of this Book is curious, and full of useful Theorems; he makes most use of the Peripatetick Philosophy, which he seems to have well understood; it must be confess'd indeed, that when he comes to talk of the Union with God, &c. (as in the Introduction) there are some
The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail
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Goose, than of the Leader: For it seems the Peripatetick who walked before her was a Watchman in that Neighbourhood; and the Goose of her self by frequent hearing his Tone, out of her natural Vigilance, not only observed, but answer'd it very regularly from Time to Time.
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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Doctrines, either of the Peripatetick or Paracelsian Schools, many of those that know me, (and perhaps, among Them, _Eleutherius_ himself) have thought me wedded to the Epicurean _Hypotheses_, (as others have mistaken me for an _Helmontian_;) yet if you knew how little
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Peripatetick, or any other Theory of the Elements differing from that
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Peripatetick being Improper, if not hurtfull for a Person of his
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Objection seems no more then may be made against the four Peripatetick
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