单词 | peragration |
释义 | peragrationn.ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [noun] > sidereal or tropical month month of peragration1561 1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation ii. xi. f. 38 This is called the moneth of peragration [Sp. mes de peragracion]. 1612 T. Dekker If it be Not Good sig. G2 He should not..talke in gibrish no man vnderstands, of Quartiles, Aspects, Stations, Retrogradations, Peregrations, Centricall, [etc.]. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 212 A month of Peragration..containeth but 27. dayes, and about 8. howres. View more context for this quotation 1694 W. Holder 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. 2. gen. The action of travelling through or traversing something; an instance of this. rare after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [noun] > travelling across or through passagec1300 transita1500 traversing1524 traverse1563 thorough-faring?1575 pass1602 peragration1611 traject1852 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Peragration, a peragration,..wandering through, trauelling ouer. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. vii. 188 By the successive peragration of these Waters. 1975 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 72 1878/1 A new, basic and primary play form termed self-motion play or peragration was identified. 1983 A. Gray Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1984) 143/2 I openly acquit many of both sexes whom flagitory zealous accuse of incubation, succubation and peragration with fairies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1561 |
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