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Definition of "peripatetical" []

  • Alternative form of peripatetic. (adjective)

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Use "peripatetical" in a sentence
  • "If we may introduce words into religion nowhere used in the Scripture (as we may and must, if we design to bring light, and communicate proper apprehensions of the things contained [in it] unto the minds of men), yet are we not to take along with them arbitrary, preconceived senses, forged either among lawyers or in the peripatetical school."
  • "Summists, and Quodlibetarians of the old Roman peripatetical school, were to be raked out of their graves to be our guides."
  • "Affecting the utmost candor and impartiality, as well as the very essence and spirit of Truth, this peripatetical maker of books scarcely succeeds in spreading his poppies broad and thick enough, to conceal even from simple eyes the malice which underlies his plausible style; and which, as"
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