peripateticismn.
/ˌpɛrᵻpəˈtɛtᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌpɛrəpəˈtɛdəˌsɪz(ə)m/ 1. The Peripatetic system of philosophy; a system of philosophy based upon or similar to that of Aristotle.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Aristotelianism > Peripatetic school or system
peripatus1647
peripateticism1661
peripatetism1671
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xvi. 152 From this stock grew School-divinity, which is but Peripateticism in a Theological Livery.
1692 T. Taylor tr. G. Daniel Voy. World Cartesius 118 This is that very Voetius that was formerly the Hero of Peripatecism [read Peripateticism] in Holland.
1725 I. Watts Logick iv. ii. §5 Reading over the mere dry definitions and divisions of Scheibler's Compendium of Peripateticism.
1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. iii. 140 The universities of Altdorf and Helmstadt were the chief nurseries of the genuine Peripateticism.
1880 Mind 5 384 The deistic conceptions of Rabbinical peripateticism.
1939 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 60 47 The science of Alexandria,..based on Peripateticism, did..attempt..to get at the objective facts of any matter in question.
1994 W. R. Newman Gehennical Fire i. 32 The Harvardians were adopting a radically modified Aristotle, and one that may well have formed a stage in the evolution from peripateticism to the mechanical philosophy.
2. In early use chiefly humorous. The activity or practice of walking or travelling from place to place.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun]
haika1529
peregrination1548
itineration1623
removement1630
peripateticism1820
itinerancy1825
itineracy1827
1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 92 Fourth-rate drudgery, doomed to dwindle..into unfeed peripateticism in the outer house.
1859 All Year Round 4 June 133 That sham peripateticism that the old traveller affects on board ship.
1949 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 39 189 That peripateticism was as rife amongst glass-workers in Roman times as it became in the Middle Ages seems most unlikely.
1984 ‘Tiresias’ Notes from Overground 178 In perambulation and peripateticism..lies virtue.
1998 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 8 May (Tempo section) 3 An estimated 25 million Americans ‘now live out of their cars in a state of affluent peripateticism for part of the year’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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