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- adjective Obsolete form of
peripatetic . - noun Obsolete form of
peripatetic .
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The old peripatetick principle, that Nature abhors a vacuum, may be properly applied to the intellect, which will embrace any thing, however absurd or criminal, rather than be wholly without an object.
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Understanding; and if there be imagined any necessity of adding the peripatetick logick, which has been, perhaps, condemned without a candid trial, it will be convenient to proceed to Sanderson, Wallis,
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Samuel Johnson 1746
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