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Word of the Day for Saturday, July 25, 2009 peripatetic \pair-uh-puh-TET-ik\, adjective: 1. Of or pertaining to walking about or traveling from place to place; itinerant. 2. Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers. 3. One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant. 4. A follower of Aristotle; an Aristotelian. Nevertheless, the attachment which in later life he developed towards Charleston suggests that his peripatetic childhood had left unsatisfied his need for a permanent home. -- Frances Spalding, Duncan Grant: A Biography I was born in Italy, my sister on the west coast of Canada, because my father was pursuing a peripatetic career as an artist. -- Anna Shapiro, USA Today, July 13, 2000 He would have a long way to go before he would match his peripatetic father. Nick had now moved five times and lived in four states from Kentucky to California. -- Allen Barra, Inventing Wyatt Earp Peripatetic derives from Greek peripatetikos, from peripatein, "to walk about," from peri-, "around, about" + patein, "to walk." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for peripatetic Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help
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