peregrinate

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14
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11
Pronunciation
/ˈpɛ.ɹɪ.ɡɹəˌneɪt/(US)

Definition of peregrinate

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive)To travel from place to place, or from one country to another, especially on foot; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.
    “You know the inveterate peregrinating habits of the club, and can judge, from your own besetting propensity to change your residence monthly, how difficult it might prove to resist the temptation of traversing a soil that is still virgin, so far as the perambulating feet of the members of our fraternity are concerned.”
    “2000, Brenda Maddox, Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0618057005&id=uEdgwQQscQ4C&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=peregrinated&sig=sIIHoIBH24WcEvOT2azATLbmoAE As their brood grew, Annie and Thomas Barnacle peregrinated through a tight circle of tenements and small houses at shabby addresses in the heart of Galway: Abbeygate Street, Raleigh Row, Newtownsmyth.”
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verb

  1. (intransitive)To travel from place to place, or from one country to another, especially on foot; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.
    “You know the inveterate peregrinating habits of the club, and can judge, from your own besetting propensity to change your residence monthly, how difficult it might prove to resist the temptation of traversing a soil that is still virgin, so far as the perambulating feet of the members of our fraternity are concerned.”
    “2000, Brenda Maddox, Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0618057005&id=uEdgwQQscQ4C&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=peregrinated&sig=sIIHoIBH24WcEvOT2azATLbmoAE As their brood grew, Annie and Thomas Barnacle peregrinated through a tight circle of tenements and small houses at shabby addresses in the heart of Galway: Abbeygate Street, Raleigh Row, Newtownsmyth.”
  2. (transitive)To travel through a specific place.
    “It is no longer hindered by any pride of race and can truthfully declare its readiness to “peregrinate every condition of man—with equal joy the lowest.””
    “2005, Jan Morris, The World: Travels 1950–2000 http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0393326489&id=zaTRIPsXsAkC&pg=PR13&lpg=PR13&dq=peregrinated&sig=HEyG3GEBaySv_3rdyw40qmcYvfA Anyway, as fledgling and as veteran, as man and as woman, as journalist and as aspirant littérateur, throughout my half-century I peregrinated the world and wrote about it.”

adj

  1. (rare)Peregrine; having travelled; exotic, foreign.
    “His humour is loftie, his diſcourſe peremptorie: his tongue fyled, his eye ambitious, his gate maieſticall and his general behauiour vaine, rediculous, & thraſonicall. He is too picked, too ſpruce, too affected, to od, as it were, too peregrinat as I may call it.”
    “Imagine this figure, grotesque, peregrinate, and to the eye of a peasant certainly diabolical, then perch it on the stile in the midst of those green English fields, and in sight of that primitive English village; there let it sit straddling, its long legs dangling down, a short German pipe emitting clouds from one corner of those sardonic lips, its dark eyes glaring through the spectacles full upon the Parson, yet askant upon Lenny Fairfield. Lenny Fairfield looked exceedingly frightened.”
    “1992, Julia Bolton Holloway, The Pilgrim and the Book http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0820420905&id=x0wYJrkBc08C&pg=RA2-PA130&lpg=RA2-PA130&dq=peregrinate&sig=kU3-LAXXKwKQb_GW3AnzXq8eryU Other apprentices on this pilgrimage have been the worldly Squire to the peregrinate Knight to whom are juxtaposed the peregrinate Second Nun to the worldly Prioress.”

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Etymology

From Latin peregrinari (“to live or travel abroad”). See also peregrine and pilgrim.

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