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Word of the Day for Saturday, July 25, 2009peripatetic \pair-uh-puh-TET-ik\, adjective: 1. Of or pertaining to walking about or traveling from place to place; itinerant. 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. I was born in Italy, my sister on the west coast of Canada, because my father was pursuing a peripatetic career as an artist. 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. Peripatetic derives from Greek peripatetikos, from peripatein, "to walk about," from peri-, "around, about" + patein, "to walk." | |||||||||
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