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peripatetically

Definitions

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  • adverb In a peripatetic manner.

Etymologies

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peripatetic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • He and his sisters lived peripatetically, eventually settling in Swiss Cottage, Hampstead's scruffier neighbour.

    Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre 2011

  • Before them stands GLENN BECK, pacing nervously, peripatetically in all directions, and before BECK is a chalk board featuring a dense flow chart cluttered with words like "oppression," "census???",

    David Kronke: A Fox News Christmas 2009

  • He lived in the world, and more peripatetically and traumatically than many of us, yet in his art declined to submit to the world; rather, he asked that the world submit to the curious, spotty evidence of its own mimetics, its streaks of insane tenderness, its infinitely ingenious markings.

    Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009

  • He lived in the world, and more peripatetically and traumatically than many of us, yet in his art declined to submit to the world; rather, he asked that the world submit to the curious, spotty evidence of its own mimetics, its streaks of insane tenderness, its infinitely ingenious markings.

    More on Updike: His Own Elegies Omnivoracious 2009

  • Ninety percent of all the law professors I have ever seen including some of the ones with the most glorious academic resumes should be banned for life from even attempting to teach using the case method; their names should be stored in a central database, like a sex-offender registry, to prevent them from inflicting their faux-Socratic torture on hapless new student-victims as they slink peripatetically from school to school.

    Is class participation obligatory for law students? Ann Althouse 2008

  • When Jay mentioned that informal learning is, in some sense, going back to basics ("the natural way"), I couldn't help thinking of Aristotle (even more than Socrates) who conducted learning “peripatetically”, i.e. by walking around and letting both his thoughts and the discussion grow and flow.

    Doing and/or non-doing, formal and/or informal Peter Isackson 2006

  • This explained the profusion of shoe prints wandering peripatetically throughout her house.

    CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993

  • This explained the profusion of shoe prints wandering peripatetically throughout her house.

    CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993

  • This explained the profusion of shoe prints wandering peripatetically throughout her house.

    CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993

  • This explained the profusion of shoe prints wandering peripatetically throughout her house.

    CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993

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