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‖ peripatus1, -os|pəˈrɪpətəs, -ɒs|
[L. peripatus = Gr. περίπατος, f. περί about + πάτος way, path.]
The walk in the Lyceum where Aristotle taught; hence transf. the school of Aristotle, or Peripatetic school of philosophy (cf. ‘the Porch’).
1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. iii. §21 Sleep not in the Dogma's of the Peripatus, Academy, or Porticus. Be a moralist of the Mount. 1858R. A. Vaughan Ess. & Rem. I. 5 He sees them walking in the peripatus, or sitting in the shady retirement of the exedra. 1867Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) I. 280 [Aristotle] simply received permission to teach in the morning and evening at the peripatos,..[of which] the shady walks offered facilities to his accustomed habit of walking to and fro during the delivery of lectures. |