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peripateticism|ˌpɛrɪpəˈtɛtɪsɪz(ə)m| [f. peripatetic + -ism 2.] 1. The Peripatetic system of philosophy.
1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. xvi. 152 From this stock grew School-divinity, which is but Peripateticism in a Theological Livery. 1725Watts Logic iv. ii. §5 Reading over the mere dry definitions and divisions of Scheibler's Compendium of Peripateticism. 1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. iii. iii. §4 The universities of Altdorf and Helmstadt were the chief nurseries of the genuine Peripateticism. 2. The habit or practice of walking about, or of travelling from place to place. (Mostly humorous.)
1820Blackw. Mag. VIII. 92 Fourth-rate drudgery, doomed to dwindle..into unfeed peripateticism in the outer house. 1859All Year Round No. 6. 133 That sham peripateticism that the old traveller affects on board ship. |