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peripatetically Definition


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peripatetic
adj
    1. Travelling about from place to place.
      Thesaurus: itinerant, migrant, nomadic, wandering, roving, roaming, traveling, vagabond, vagrant; Antonym: settled.
    2. Said of a teacher: employed by several schools and so obliged to travel between them.
    3. Denoting the school of philosophers founded by Aristotle, given to promenading while lecturing.
      Form: Peripatetic (also)
noun
    1. A peripatetic teacher or philosopher.
Derivative: peripatetically
adverb
    Etymology: 16c: from Greek peripatetikos, from peri around + pateein to walk.



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