单词 | peregrinate |
释义 | peregrinateadj. rare. 1. Chiefly literary. Influenced by or affecting foreign styles or expressions; affected; mannered. Also: having the appearance of a foreigner; outlandish. Cf. peregrine adj. 2a.In quot. 1942 with reference to Shakespeare's use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [adjective] > that is a stranger or outsider > having quality of peregrinate1598 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 14 Ped: He is too picked, to spruce, too affected, to od as it were, too peregrinat as I may call it. Curat: A most singuler and choyce Epithat. View more context for this quotation 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. i. iv. 21 Imagine this figure, grotesque, peregrinate, and to the eye of a peasant certainly diabolical. 1942 T. R. Glover Challenge of Greek & Other Ess. 128 It is a wonderful piece..of story-telling—something too peregrinate, some might say, and you need to be at leisure; but it is a story, and a good story deserves leisure. 2. Of or relating to pilgrimage or pilgrims. ΚΠ 1987 J. B. Holloway Pilgrim & Bk. ix. 192 Bourgeois and mercantile Sir Thopas country in opposition to the St. Denis of royal and peregrinate crusades. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). peregrinatev. 1. intransitive. To travel, journey; to go from place to place. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > go on a journey ferec950 foundOE sitheOE to come upOE comeOE undernimc1275 to take or make (a, the, or one's) voyage1297 travelc1300 journeyc1330 to take one's waya1375 reisea1387 to fare a waya1400 voyage1477 wayfare1534 peregrinate1593 sojourn1608 to fare a voyage1609 to journey itc1680 to take one's foot in one's hand1755 stroke1823 trek1850 peruse1895 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 28 That Sepulcher..which you perigrinate to adore. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 9 They haue perigrinated to know the life of States. 1784 J. Carver Three Years' Trav. through Interior Parts N. Amer. 9 The different nations, from whence we might suppose they have peregrinated. 1793 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 37. 294 It is of late the custom to peregrinate by night. 1812 W. Scott Let. 11 Oct. (1932) III. 169 We peregrinated over Stainmore and visited the Castles of Bowes..and Brougham. 1864 London Society Nov. 392 She peregrinated calmly in a pinched bonnet. 1918 C. Seymour How World Votes II. xxxiii. 264 The election officials peregrinate from village to village taking in the vote. 1980 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 Oct. b3/2 The birds, sometimes diving at speeds up to 200 miles an hour, peregrinate over as much as 10 square miles of sky. 1996 Voice Lit. Suppl. (Nexis) 9 July 12 He..peregrinates widely across cultural criticism and history to put Atlanta in context. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (intransitive)] > in a (foreign) country climatea1616 peregrinate1755 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Peregrinate,..to live in foreign countries. 3. transitive. To travel along, across, or around; to traverse. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > cross or pass over overstyeOE overleapeOE overfareOE overgoc1225 passc1300 overpassa1382 to pass through ——a1382 overlendc1450 overmetec1480 overspana1522 cross1583 transpass1626 overwenda1649 overmarcha1805 peregrinate1835 1835 Fraser's Mag. 11 33 The path I was about to peregrinate was..hackneyed beyond conception. 1857 Chicago Mag. May . 266 Flies peregrinate the ceiling above. 1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways II. ii. 55 He could have wished himself peregrinating a bridge. 1940 J. Buchan Memory Hold-the-door i. 23 The tramp might still be a professional man.., one who peregrinated the country for seasonal jobs. 1990 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 4 Nov. 7 c Kuralt peregrinated the forlorn hamlets of eastern Carolina in his company. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1598v.1593 |
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