Definition of "peripatetic" [per•i•pa•tet•ic]

• Walking about or from place to place; traveling on foot. (adjective)
• Of or relating to the philosophy or teaching methods of Aristotle, who conducted discussions while walking about in the Lyceum of ancient Athens. (adjective)
• One who walks from place to place; an itinerant. (noun)
• A follower of the philosophy of Aristotle; an Aristotelian. (noun)

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• "That afternoon we were on the march in what Denham called our peripatetic hospital; but he was not happy."
• "Henry Parecki might best be described as a peripatetic entrepreneur."
• "From my own experience of reading parties, I should select as their peculiar characteristics, a tendency to hats and caps of such remarkable shapes, as, if once sported in the college quadrangle, would be the subject of a common-room _instanter_; and, among some individuals (whom we may call the peripatetic philosophers of the party) a predilection for seedy shooting-coats and short pipes, with which they perambulate the neighbourhood to the marvel of the aboriginal inhabitants; while those whom we may class with the stoics, display a preference for dressing-gowns and meerschaums, and confine themselves principally to the doorways and open windows of their respective lodgings."