Thursday, August 6, 2009

Word of the week>>>Paripatetic


Paripatetic


Main Entry:
1 peri·pa·tet·ic
Pronunciation:
\ˌper-ə-pə-ˈte-tik\
Function:
noun
Date:
15th century


"Walking about or from place to place; traveling on foot."
Peripatetic of or relating to the philosophy or teaching methods of Aristotle, who conducted discussions while walking about in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.
n.
One who walks from place to place; an itinerant.
Peripatetic A follower of the philosophy of Aristotle; an Aristotelian.

Visual Sentence::
There is no doubt about the historicity of Xuanzang, the peripatetic pilgrim who passed this way around 630 on his way from Xian in Shaanxi Province to India.

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