peripateticn.adj.

Brit.

/ˌpɛrᵻpəˈtɛtɪk/, U.S.

/ˌpɛrəpəˈtɛdɪk/

Forms: late Middle English paripatetik, late Middle English paripatik (transmission error), late Middle English peripatatik, late Middle English pipatike (transmission error), late Middle English ypatetik (transmission error), 1500s peripatetycke, 1500s perrepateticke, 1500s–1600s peripatetike, 1500s–1600s peripatetique, 1500s–1700s peripatetick, 1600s– peripatetic.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin peripatēticus.

Etymology: < classical Latin peripatēticus of or belonging to the peripatetic (Aristotelian) school of philosophy, philosopher of this school < Hellenistic Greek περιπατητικός given to walking about, especially while teaching or disputing, especially with reference to Aristotle and his followers < ancient Greek περιπατεῖν to walk about, to walk up and down while teaching ( < περι- peri- prefix + πατεῖν to tread, to walk: see paturon n.) + -τικός , suffix forming adjectives from verbs. Compare Middle French, French péripatétique (1372 as adjective, 1531 or earlier as noun). Compare peripatos n.

A. n.

1. Philosophy. Usually in form Peripatetic. A student or follower of Aristotle, an Aristotelian; the sect of such followers; (more generally) a scholastic philosopher.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Aristotelianism > adherent of

peripateticc1454

peripaticiana1533

peripatetican1559

Aristotelean1634

categorist1850

c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 111 An oþir sect..was of philesofris whiche weren clepid ‘Paripatetici’, and of which sect fadir, fynder, and patrone was Plato, and next aftir him was Aristotil..þis wey of paripatetikis is holden for trew of alle men.

1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. lxxxi^v The peripatetyckes or naturall philosophers of Aristotle's secte.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. i. 10 The Schooles of the Stoikes, Academikes, and Peripatetikes,..roong of that [prayer].

1642 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (new ed.) 138 Though our first studies and junior endevours may stile us Peripateticks, Stoicks, or Academicks, yet I perceive the wisest heads prove at last, almost all Scepticks.

1671 J. Sharp Midwives Bk. ii. viii. 143 The Peripateticks say it is fed by menstrual blood.

1701 tr. J. Le Clerc Lives Primitive Fathers 5 The School-men, who were Peripateticks, explained Divinity by Aristotle's Principles.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxvi. 562 (note) Dicæarchus, the Peripatetic, composed a formal treatise, to prove this obvious truth; which is not the most honourable to the human species.

1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 15 The mediocrity in which the Peripatetics placed virtue.

1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man ii. iii. 235 There was actually a school of philosophers called the Peripatetics.

1988 Classical Q. New Ser. 38 155 A good many Peripatetics sought to combat the tendency of the other Socratic schools to set up Socrates as the paradigm of how a philosophical life should be lived.

2003 Greek Amer. Rev. (Nexis) 31 Jan. 22 His dialogues with Socrates and others were developed while walking around the academy. They became known as the peripatetics.

2. Chiefly humorous. A person who walks about; a traveller; an itinerant dealer or trader.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > itinerant

piepowderc1436

kedger1497

badgera1500

cadger?a1500

chapman?1593

peripateticc1600

haggler1602

higgler1637

mugger1743

truckerc1790

smouch1849

smouse1850

togt-ganger1879

kurveyor1885

smouser1903

machinga1993

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > one who

piepowderc1436

runabout1549

peripatician1598

peripateticc1600

peregrinator1610

itinerant1641

itinerary1709

transient1877

cardower1911

c1600 Timon (1980) v. iv. 78 A Peripatetick is a two legd liuing Creature, gressible, Vnfeathered.

1617 J. Moore Mappe Mans Mortal. ii. iv. 109 The Diuell is a Peripateticke,..alwaies walking and going about, seeking whom he may ensnare.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 376. ⁋1 It seems the peripatetic who walked before her was a watchman in the neighbourhood.

1798 R. Southey in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 221 I have a traveller, and I am afraid I shall want another of these peripatetics.

1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 195 John and Jonathan are always in a hurry when they turn peripatetics.

1954 J. A. Weingarten Amer. Dict. Slang 270/1 Peripatetic, a pedestrian; an itinerant.

1994 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 24 Jan. 19 (caption) What if somebody calls us a pair o' pathetic peripatetics?

3. In plural. Movements to and fro or from place to place.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > [noun] > travelling to and fro

running?1764

peripatetics1769

travel1784

the trots1936

shuttling1937

trippage1941

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [noun] > movement hither and thither

discursiona1600

peripatetics1811

1769 E. Griffith Delicate Distress xxviii, in R. Griffith & E. Griffith Two Novels I. 228 Straffon hill..was rather too far for us to walk, as we were, by no means, accoutred for Peripatetics.

1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude I. iii. 41 You can divine their ‘having friends to dinner’ by the white-aproned satellites of the confectioner, and the preternatural peripatetics of pots and kettles.

1932 Times 29 Dec. 13/3 Those responsible for the control of the national unit of value..have been concentrating on abstract rights to money..their geographical peripatetics and attempted fixation into concrete gold.

2002 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 10 June 32 If it is safe for ramblers to cross several farms in the course of their peripatetics, why on earth have farmers still to comply with so many restrictions?

B. adj.

1. Philosophy. Usually in form Peripatetic. Of, belonging to, or following the school or system of philosophy founded by Aristotle. Of a doctrine, principle, etc.: Aristotelian; held or believed by Aristotelians.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > [adjective] > Aristotelian > Peripatetic

peripatetica1500

peripatetical1555

a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 28 Of his [sc. Aristotle's] deth there ben dyuers oppynyons; For some secte that is called Peripatatik [a1475 J. Shirley tr. Secreta Secret. Paripatik; c1475 Tripolitanus abbrev. Pipatike; L. per ypotetica] seith that he assended vnto the emperiall heven in a piller of fire.

1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xv. f. 38 Phocion a peripatetique Philosopher.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 57 The Controversie 'twixt the Peripatetick and Atomical Philosophers.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. x. 242 Though the Peripatetick Philosophy has been most eminent in this way, yet other Sects have not been wholly clear of it.

1740 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature III. ii. 120 This quality, which we shall call property, is like many of the imaginary qualities of the peripatetic philosophy, and vanishes upon a more accurate inspection into the subject.

1791 W. Enfield Brucker's Hist. Philos. II. 240 Al-Ashari..applied an extensive knowledge of the Peripatetic philosophy to the explanation of the Islamitic law.

1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. iv. i. 251 The mixed peripatetic and Platonic philosophy of his time.

1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 564/1 Until dualism had been thought out, as in the Peripatetic school, it was impossible that monism..should be definitely and consciously maintained.

1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent xi. 326 Like a peripatetic philosopher, Mr Verloc, strolling along the streets of London, had modified Stevie's view of the police by conversations full of subtle reasonings.

1993 New Scientist 20 Feb. 39/2 Aristotle..established the so-called Peripatetic school at the Lyceum in Athens.

a. Moving about from place to place; that moves around or is capable of being moved frequently; itinerant.Formerly often humorous, with reference to sense A. 1.In quot. 1607 referring to sleepwalking.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > in connection with employment

deambulatory1607

peripatetic1607

peripatetical1633

itinerant1661

ambulating1716

1607 T. Tomkis Lingua xvii. sig. M3^v I haue seene many sicke of the Peripatetick disease.

1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell i. 8 Peregrination..may be not improperly called a moving Academy or the true Peripatetique Schoole.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 217 A peripatetic Cobler scorn'd to soal A pair of Shoes of any other School.

1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xxxiv. 120 The stage-loads of chymical nostrums, and peripatetic lumber, with which..they [sc. quacks] have first flatter'd the world, and at last deceived it.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. viii. 63/2 His Peripatetic habits, favourable to Meditation.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 258 Peripatetic mountebanks used..to include a goat among their stage properties.

1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet iii. 160 It had been..forgotten save by small peripatetic sawmills which had vanished too now.

1994 Successful Retirement Sept. 9 Our peripatetic writer, John Howells, has been roaming the countryside.

b. Education. Of a teacher: not attached to a particular school, etc., but going from place to place to give specialist training. Also: of, relating to, or characterized by this type of teaching.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > [adjective] > other methods of teaching

scholastical?a1475

scholastic1483

maieutic1656

maieutical1678

demonstrative1805

peripatetic1890

free activity1929

hypnopaedic1932

show-and-tell1945

audio-active1958

programmed1958

audio-lingual1959

mother tongue1960

immersion1965

distance-based1979

society > education > teaching > teacher > [adjective] > types of

peripatetic1890

1890 Times 31 Mar. 4/3 The peripatetic teacher has at last obtained official recognition..a person employed..by the managers of several schools..will be regarded as legitimate expenditure.

1969 Peripatetic Teachers of Deaf (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) 17 The duties of peripatetic teachers take them into hospitals, ENT and child health clinics.

1983 Classical Music Nov. 4/1 (advt.) Peripatetic music teacher violin/viola.

2003 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 18 Aug. 16 Andrea became a peripatetic clarinet teacher, travelling around Derbyshire schools to give lessons.

†3. Of a gallery, cloister, etc.: used or suitable for walking up and down. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [adjective] > ambulatory

peripatetic1631

1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies v. 34 Entring now the long Peripatetick gallery; they are encountred with volleyes of..questions.

4. figurative. Of speech or writing: rambling. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective] > copious or lengthy (of speech)

facundious1430

clattered1582

voluble1598

garrulous1839

peripatetic1864

wangling1869

yacketing1958

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xi. 105 [He] prolonged to the utmost stretch of possibility a peripatetic account of an archery meeting.

1999 Legal Times (Nexis) 5 July 54 During his peripatetic account of Boggs' artistic life, he discourses on such topics as economics, art history, the origin of currency, and comparative law.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	peripatetic
释义	peripateticn.adj. Brit. /ˌpɛrᵻpəˈtɛtɪk/, U.S. /ˌpɛrəpəˈtɛdɪk/ Forms: late Middle English paripatetik, late Middle English paripatik (transmission error), late Middle English peripatatik, late Middle English pipatike (transmission error), late Middle English ypatetik (transmission error), 1500s peripatetycke, 1500s perrepateticke, 1500s–1600s peripatetike, 1500s–1600s peripatetique, 1500s–1700s peripatetick, 1600s– peripatetic. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin peripatēticus. Etymology: < classical Latin peripatēticus of or belonging to the peripatetic (Aristotelian) school of philosophy, philosopher of this school < Hellenistic Greek περιπατητικός given to walking about, especially while teaching or disputing, especially with reference to Aristotle and his followers < ancient Greek περιπατεῖν to walk about, to walk up and down while teaching ( < περι- peri- prefix + πατεῖν to tread, to walk: see paturon n.) + -τικός , suffix forming adjectives from verbs. Compare Middle French, French péripatétique (1372 as adjective, 1531 or earlier as noun). Compare peripatos n. A. n. 1. Philosophy. Usually in form Peripatetic. A student or follower of Aristotle, an Aristotelian; the sect of such followers; (more generally) a scholastic philosopher. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Aristotelianism > adherent of peripateticc1454 peripaticiana1533 peripatetican1559 Aristotelean1634 categorist1850 c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 111 An oþir sect..was of philesofris whiche weren clepid ‘Paripatetici’, and of which sect fadir, fynder, and patrone was Plato, and next aftir him was Aristotil..þis wey of paripatetikis is holden for trew of alle men. 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. lxxxi^v The peripatetyckes or naturall philosophers of Aristotle's secte. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. i. 10 The Schooles of the Stoikes, Academikes, and Peripatetikes,..roong of that [prayer]. 1642 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (new ed.) 138 Though our first studies and junior endevours may stile us Peripateticks, Stoicks, or Academicks, yet I perceive the wisest heads prove at last, almost all Scepticks. 1671 J. Sharp Midwives Bk. ii. viii. 143 The Peripateticks say it is fed by menstrual blood. 1701 tr. J. Le Clerc Lives Primitive Fathers 5 The School-men, who were Peripateticks, explained Divinity by Aristotle's Principles. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxvi. 562 (note) Dicæarchus, the Peripatetic, composed a formal treatise, to prove this obvious truth; which is not the most honourable to the human species. 1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 15 The mediocrity in which the Peripatetics placed virtue. 1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man ii. iii. 235 There was actually a school of philosophers called the Peripatetics. 1988 Classical Q. New Ser. 38 155 A good many Peripatetics sought to combat the tendency of the other Socratic schools to set up Socrates as the paradigm of how a philosophical life should be lived. 2003 Greek Amer. Rev. (Nexis) 31 Jan. 22 His dialogues with Socrates and others were developed while walking around the academy. They became known as the peripatetics. 2. Chiefly humorous. A person who walks about; a traveller; an itinerant dealer or trader. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > itinerant piepowderc1436 kedger1497 badgera1500 cadger?a1500 chapman?1593 peripateticc1600 haggler1602 higgler1637 mugger1743 truckerc1790 smouch1849 smouse1850 togt-ganger1879 kurveyor1885 smouser1903 machinga1993 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > one who piepowderc1436 runabout1549 peripatician1598 peripateticc1600 peregrinator1610 itinerant1641 itinerary1709 transient1877 cardower1911 c1600 Timon (1980) v. iv. 78 A Peripatetick is a two legd liuing Creature, gressible, Vnfeathered. 1617 J. Moore Mappe Mans Mortal. ii. iv. 109 The Diuell is a Peripateticke,..alwaies walking and going about, seeking whom he may ensnare. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 376. ⁋1 It seems the peripatetic who walked before her was a watchman in the neighbourhood. 1798 R. Southey in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 221 I have a traveller, and I am afraid I shall want another of these peripatetics. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 195 John and Jonathan are always in a hurry when they turn peripatetics. 1954 J. A. Weingarten Amer. Dict. Slang 270/1 Peripatetic, a pedestrian; an itinerant. 1994 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 24 Jan. 19 (caption) What if somebody calls us a pair o' pathetic peripatetics? 3. In plural. Movements to and fro or from place to place. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [noun] > travelling to and fro running?1764 peripatetics1769 travel1784 the trots1936 shuttling1937 trippage1941 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [noun] > movement hither and thither discursiona1600 peripatetics1811 1769 E. Griffith Delicate Distress xxviii, in R. Griffith & E. Griffith Two Novels I. 228 Straffon hill..was rather too far for us to walk, as we were, by no means, accoutred for Peripatetics. 1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude I. iii. 41 You can divine their ‘having friends to dinner’ by the white-aproned satellites of the confectioner, and the preternatural peripatetics of pots and kettles. 1932 Times 29 Dec. 13/3 Those responsible for the control of the national unit of value..have been concentrating on abstract rights to money..their geographical peripatetics and attempted fixation into concrete gold. 2002 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 10 June 32 If it is safe for ramblers to cross several farms in the course of their peripatetics, why on earth have farmers still to comply with so many restrictions? B. adj. 1. Philosophy. Usually in form Peripatetic. Of, belonging to, or following the school or system of philosophy founded by Aristotle. Of a doctrine, principle, etc.: Aristotelian; held or believed by Aristotelians. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > [adjective] > Aristotelian > Peripatetic peripatetica1500 peripatetical1555 a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 28 Of his [sc. Aristotle's] deth there ben dyuers oppynyons; For some secte that is called Peripatatik [a1475 J. Shirley tr. Secreta Secret. Paripatik; c1475 Tripolitanus abbrev. Pipatike; L. per ypotetica] seith that he assended vnto the emperiall heven in a piller of fire. 1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xv. f. 38 Phocion a peripatetique Philosopher. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 57 The Controversie 'twixt the Peripatetick and Atomical Philosophers. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. x. 242 Though the Peripatetick Philosophy has been most eminent in this way, yet other Sects have not been wholly clear of it. 1740 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature III. ii. 120 This quality, which we shall call property, is like many of the imaginary qualities of the peripatetic philosophy, and vanishes upon a more accurate inspection into the subject. 1791 W. Enfield Brucker's Hist. Philos. II. 240 Al-Ashari..applied an extensive knowledge of the Peripatetic philosophy to the explanation of the Islamitic law. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. iv. i. 251 The mixed peripatetic and Platonic philosophy of his time. 1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 564/1 Until dualism had been thought out, as in the Peripatetic school, it was impossible that monism..should be definitely and consciously maintained. 1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent xi. 326 Like a peripatetic philosopher, Mr Verloc, strolling along the streets of London, had modified Stevie's view of the police by conversations full of subtle reasonings. 1993 New Scientist 20 Feb. 39/2 Aristotle..established the so-called Peripatetic school at the Lyceum in Athens. 2. a. Moving about from place to place; that moves around or is capable of being moved frequently; itinerant.Formerly often humorous, with reference to sense A. 1.In quot. 1607 referring to sleepwalking. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > in connection with employment deambulatory1607 peripatetic1607 peripatetical1633 itinerant1661 ambulating1716 1607 T. Tomkis Lingua xvii. sig. M3^v I haue seene many sicke of the Peripatetick disease. 1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell i. 8 Peregrination..may be not improperly called a moving Academy or the true Peripatetique Schoole. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 217 A peripatetic Cobler scorn'd to soal A pair of Shoes of any other School. 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xxxiv. 120 The stage-loads of chymical nostrums, and peripatetic lumber, with which..they [sc. quacks] have first flatter'd the world, and at last deceived it. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. viii. 63/2 His Peripatetic habits, favourable to Meditation. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 258 Peripatetic mountebanks used..to include a goat among their stage properties. 1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet iii. 160 It had been..forgotten save by small peripatetic sawmills which had vanished too now. 1994 Successful Retirement Sept. 9 Our peripatetic writer, John Howells, has been roaming the countryside. b. Education. Of a teacher: not attached to a particular school, etc., but going from place to place to give specialist training. Also: of, relating to, or characterized by this type of teaching. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > [adjective] > other methods of teaching scholastical?a1475 scholastic1483 maieutic1656 maieutical1678 demonstrative1805 peripatetic1890 free activity1929 hypnopaedic1932 show-and-tell1945 audio-active1958 programmed1958 audio-lingual1959 mother tongue1960 immersion1965 distance-based1979 society > education > teaching > teacher > [adjective] > types of peripatetic1890 1890 Times 31 Mar. 4/3 The peripatetic teacher has at last obtained official recognition..a person employed..by the managers of several schools..will be regarded as legitimate expenditure. 1969 Peripatetic Teachers of Deaf (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) 17 The duties of peripatetic teachers take them into hospitals, ENT and child health clinics. 1983 Classical Music Nov. 4/1 (advt.) Peripatetic music teacher violin/viola. 2003 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 18 Aug. 16 Andrea became a peripatetic clarinet teacher, travelling around Derbyshire schools to give lessons. †3. Of a gallery, cloister, etc.: used or suitable for walking up and down. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [adjective] > ambulatory peripatetic1631 1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies v. 34 Entring now the long Peripatetick gallery; they are encountred with volleyes of..questions. 4. figurative. Of speech or writing: rambling. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective] > copious or lengthy (of speech) facundious1430 clattered1582 voluble1598 garrulous1839 peripatetic1864 wangling1869 yacketing1958 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xi. 105 [He] prolonged to the utmost stretch of possibility a peripatetic account of an archery meeting. 1999 Legal Times (Nexis) 5 July 54 During his peripatetic account of Boggs' artistic life, he discourses on such topics as economics, art history, the origin of currency, and comparative law. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c1454
随便看	to make or take but one step from — to to make or undertake a journey to make orts of to make out to make out a case to make out like a bandit to make out of the way to make out one's case to make out one's market to make over to make pain to make palaver to make parade of to make parch of to make pausation to make pay a vow to make peace to make peasing to make penance to make penny of to make perfect sense to make petition to make phrase to make place to make strangeness