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\per-uh-puh-TET-ik\
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adjective
1. walking or traveling about; itinerant.
2. (initial capital letter) of or relating to Aristotle, who taught philosophy while walking in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.
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The peripatetic life is the only truly fashionable one
these days. And one must not come back empty-handed; it's as necessary
to display a vase unearthed from Pompeii or a new dress from Madame
Bertin in Paris as to litter one's speech with carisima mia and enchanté.
-- Emma Donoghue, Life Mask, 2004
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Peripatetic is derived from the Greek peripatētikós, a term used for Aristotle and his school meaning literally "walking about." It entered English in the mid-1400s.
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