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   peripatetic

   /ˌpɛrɪpəˈtɛtɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. travelling from place to place, in particular working or based in various places for relatively short periods: "the peripatetic nature of military life"
   • ▪ (of a teacher) working in more than one school or college: "a peripatetic music teacher"
   • 2. Aristotelian.

   noun

   • 1. a person who travels from place to place, especially a teacher who works in more than one school or college: "peripatetics have been cut under local management of schools"
   • 2. an Aristotelian philosopher.

   Word Origin late Middle English (denoting an Aristotelian philosopher): from Old French peripatetique, via Latin from Greek peripatētikos ‘walking up and down’, from the verb peripatein.

   Derivatives

   • 1. peripatetically adverb
   • 2. peripateticism noun

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