Word Meanings - PERIPATETIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Walking about; itinerant. 2. Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers. "The true peripatetic school." Howell.

Related words: (words related to PERIPATETIC)

• WALK-MILL
  A fulling mill. Halliwell.
• HOWELL
  The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.
• WHILES
  1. Meanwhile; meantime. The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour. Sir. W. Scott. 2. sometimes; at times. Sir W. Scott. The whiles. See under While, n.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• WHILERE
  A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile. Helpeth me now as I did you whilere. Chaucer. He who, with all heaven's heraldry, whilere Entered the world. Milton.
• SCHOOLSHIP
  A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts
• SCHOOLHOUSE
  A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.
• PHILOSOPHY
  1. Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws. Note: When applied to any particular department of knowledge,
• PERIPATETICISM
  The doctrines or philosophical system of the peripatetics. See Peripatetic, n., 2. Lond. Sat. Rev.
• SCHOOLROOM
  A room in which pupils are taught.
• TAUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Teach. Etym: Note: See Teach.
• WALK
  1. The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping. 2. The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk. 3. Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• SCHOOLMAN
  One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity. Note: The schoolmen were philosophers and divines of the Middle Ages, esp. from the 11th century to the Reformation, who spent much time on points of nice and
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• PERIPATETIC
  1. One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant. Tatler. 2. A disciple of Aristotle; an Aristotelian.
• SCHOOLWARD
  Toward school. Chaucer.
• SCHOOLMISTRESS
  A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school- teacher.
• SCHOOLMATE
  A pupil who attends the same school as another.
• ITINERANT
  Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler. The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king's palace, and removing with
• WHILE
  wigl, G. weile, OHG. wila, hwila, hwil, Icel. hvila a bed, hvild rest, Sw. hvila, Dan. hvile, Goth. hweila a time, and probably to L. 1. Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent. "All
• SHOPWALKER
  One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• SIDEWALK
  A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.
• ERSTWHILE
  Till then or now; heretofore; formerly.
• SLEEPWALKER
  One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• EREWHILE; EREWHILES
  Some time ago; a little while before; heretofore. I am as fair now as I was erewhile. Shak.