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peregrination|ˌpɛrɪgrɪˈneɪʃən|
[a. F. pérégrination (12th and 16th c. in Littré), or ad. L. peregrīnātiōn-em, n. of action from peregrīnārī to peregrinate. Cf. It. peregrinazione, Sp. peregrinacion.]
1. The action of travelling in foreign lands, or of journeying from land to land; hence, by extension, of travelling from place to place.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV 19 His daily peregrinacion in the desert, felles and craggy mountains of [Wales]. a1550in Boorde's Introd. Knowl. (1870) Forewords 23 The Perègrination of Doctor Boarde. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies vii. iv. 505 This going forth and peregrination of the Mexicaines, will happily seeme like to that of Egypt. 1650Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 11 Amongst those many advantages, which conduce to enrich the mind with variety of Knowledge,..Peregrination, or Forraine Travell is none of the least. 1763Johnson Life Ascham Wks. IV. 626 The purse of Ascham was not equal to the expence of peregrination. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. i, Before they had advanced far on their peregrination.
b. With a and pl. A course of travel (properly abroad); a journey, esp. on foot; a perambulation; in pl. = travels. Also, A narrative of travels.
1548Hooper Ten Commandm. x. 167 How light so euer this vngodlie people make there gaddynges or peregrinations: they shalbe culpable and accomptable for as many faultes, as is donne by his familie throwghe his absence. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. i. 1 The nauigations and peregrinations Orientals of Nicholas. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. xxvii. 202 The Peregrination which I have written. 1711Addison Spect. No. 130 ⁋4 The vicious Habits and Practises that he had been used to in the Course of his Peregrinations. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. i. 31 The wild fanaticism..first incited men to enter upon those long and dangerous peregrinations. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 151 My peregrinations about this great metropolis. 1853–8Hawthorne Eng. Note-Bks. (1879) II. 321 [He] recently published a book of his peregrinations.
†c. A going as a pilgrim; a pilgrimage. Obs.
1528Roy Rede me (Arb.) 106 Hathe Englond soche stacions Of devoute peregrinacions As are in Fraunce and Italy? a1552Leland Itin. IV. 71 [Throgmorton] his Father..dyed in Peregrination going to Hierusalem. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 75 Workes of supererogation, meritis, pardones, perigrinationeis, and stationeis.
†d. The migration or transplantation of a plant, etc. into another country. Obs. rare.
1679Evelyn Sylva (ed. 3) xxv, Concerning the Peregrination of that tree [Elm] into Spain.
e. fig. A systematic going through a subject, writing, course of study, etc.
f. The ‘pilgrimage’ or ‘journey’ of life: see 2 b.
1615Crooke Body of Man 197 Being ariued at this place in the tract of my Anatomicall Perigrination. 1653R. Mason Commend. Let. in Bulwer's Anthropomet., When first I cast up this account of your ingenious peregrination through the world. 1717L. Howel Desiderius (ed. 3) 126 Modesty..is absolutely necessary to be retain'd thro' the whole Course of our Peregrination till we arrive at the Love of God.
†2. A sojourning in a foreign land; the condition of dwelling as a sojourner; sojourn. Obs. or arch.
1630R. N. tr. Camden's Hist. Eliz. 125 If he [the Czar] should..be constrained..to leave his country, she promised..to receiue..him..with all honour worthy so great a Prince,..to assigne unto him a convenient place for his perigrination. a1638Mede Wks. (1672) 597 [The] 430 years of the Peregrination [in Egypt] Exod. 12. [40]. The 40 years travail in the Wilderness. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. vi. 191 Ἐπιδηµία ἐς ἀνθρώπους θεοῦ, a Peregrination of a God among men. 1697Bp. Patrick Comm. Exod. vi. 4 He thinks the Peregrination of the Fathers is attributed here to the Children.
b. fig. Man's life on earth viewed as a ‘sojourn in the flesh’.
Often associated with the sojourn or ‘tabernacling’ of the Israelites in the desert; hence in later use passing into the notion of ‘pilgrimage’, and so of the ‘journey’ through life, as a fig. sense of 1. (In quot. 1523, prob. referring to Lydgate's transl. of le Pelerinage de Vie humaine.)
1523Skelton Garl. Laurel 1221 Of Mannes Lyfe the Peregrynacioun, He did translate, enterprete, and disclose. 1549Compl. Scot. Prol. 18 The schort tyme of this oure fragil peregrinatione. 1585Abp. Sandys Serm. ix. ⁋19 The Israelites dwelt in tents, vncertaine of their abode, euer readie to shift: whereby they represent vnto vs our peregrination in this mortalitie. 1626Donne Serm., Ps. xc. 14 (1640) 808 The Saints..pray that God would powre down vpon vs graces for our Peregrination here, as He hath done vpon them in their Station there. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iii. ii. xxviii. (1852) 506 In the eighty third year of his peregrination. 1733P. Shaw tr. Bacon's Philos. Wks., Wisd. Ancients I. 573 Thro' all the Journey and Peregrination [in itinere sive peregrinatione] of human Life.
†c. transf. A place of sojourn. Obs. rare—1.
1609Bible (Douay) Wisd. xii. 7 They might receive a peregrination [Gr. ἀποικίαν, Vulg. peregrinationem] worthie of the children of God, which is a land of al most deare to thee. |