peripatetic
- adjective
- /ˌpɛrəpəˈtɛtɪk/
- Formal
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peripatético
- The precept can be traced back to the Peripatetic "Problem XXX.i" once attributed to Aristotle, which seeks to answer the question, "Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy or politics or poetry or the arts are clearly melancholics, and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?"
- peripatetic scholar
Examples
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Many universities celebrate peripatetic traditions by encouraging students to learn through direct engagement and exploration.
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But these ceaselessly peripatetic bodies were not simply planets.
Academic text (2000) -
With one, even the most venturesome and peripatetic have the guarantee of the political and cultural stability of the West.
Academic text (2009) -
They probably belong to some peripatetic sect.
Fiction book (1993) -
Thus, the peripatetic scholar wanders perilously but in anticipation of unique rewards.
Academic text (1995) -
Nevertheless, he was intrigued by the idea of forging a peripatetic notion of corporeal substance in Leibnizian terms:
Academic text (2016) -
One of the more peripatetic advisers is Professor Jeffrey Sachs from Harvard University, an economic mendicant who is counseling the Yeltsin government on privatization.
Academic text (1993) -
After all, his lifelong effort to reform the notion of substance envisioned a revival of the Aristotelian metaphysics of form and matter within a more defensible physics: an "emended peripatetic philosophy," as he called it.
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Quality-assured, practice-based spirometry may be impractical, particularly for a small practice, but locality-based, peripatetic, or open-access services can offer a practical, cost-effective alternative that should be explored. Peak flow meters.
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* Here I am drawing on the work of Eugene Y. Wang, especially his fascinating chapter "Watching the Steps: Peripatetic Viewing in Medieval China," in Visuality before and beyond the Renaissance: Seeing as Others Saw, ed. Robert S. Nelson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 116-38.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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Relating to the ideas and methods of Aristotle
Relating to the ideas of Aristotle
About the ideas and methods of the philosopher Aristotle
Surface Forms
Morphology
peripatetic = peri + patet + ic
Although built from Greek elements (peri- 'around' + root meaning 'walk'), the specialized philosophical sense ('relating to Aristotle or his school') is historical and cannot be derived by a typical B1 learner from the parts.
Etymology
Peripatetic comes from Greek words that mean 'around' (peri-) and 'to walk' (from peripatein). Aristotle and his students often walked while they taught, so the word came to mean 'relating to Aristotle or his philosophy'.