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peripatetic
[-pətet′ik]
Etymology: Gk, peripatein, to walk about
pertaining to an ambulatory typhoid patient.


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The wife gives up her pursuit when Gray's peripateticism (which, it turns out, has its basis not in space-alien whimsy but in a brain tumor) leads him out of New York City and, after a detour through his old college town, down to Central America.
Vacation by Hopking, Thomas Israel / Artforum International
The origin of my own peripateticism is difficult to pinpoint, but once you are on a certain trajectory, the world colludes to keep you on it.
Preface by Davidson, Robyn / Quarterly Essay
116 ) remarkable Kitab al-Mu'tabar, (15) which criticized Aristotelian physics and metaphysics just as al-Ghazali earlier criticized its metaphysics, and which prefigured much of the Fakhrurazian wide-ranging polemics against peripateticism.
The theologico-scientific research program of the mutakallimun: ... by Setia, Adi / Islam & Science
 
 
 
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