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peragration Now rare.|pɛrəˈgreːʃən|
[ad. L. peragrātiōn-em, n. of action from peragrāre: see prec.]
The action of peragrating; a travelling through or traversing.
1611Cotgr., Peragration, a peragration,..wandering through, trauelling ouer. 1676Glanvill Ess. iii. 49 What are Aristotle's peragrations of Asia, to all these? a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. vii. 188 By the successive peragration of these Waters.
†b. month of peragration (Astron.): the period of the moon's revolution from any point of the zodiac to the same point again; a sidereal (or tropical) month. (Cf. consecution 2 d.) Obs.
1561Eden tr. Cortez' Arte Nauig. ii. xi. 38 This is called the moneth of peragration. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 212 A month of Peragration..containeth but 27. dayes, and about 8. howres. 1694Holder Disc. Time vi. 69 The moon has two accounts of her circuit,..one her periodic month, or month of peragration:..the other is her synodic month. |