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peregrinate (v.)

"to travel from place to place," 1590s, from Latin peregrinatus , past participle of peregrinari "to travel abroad, be alien," figuratively "to wander, roam, travel about," from peregrinus "from foreign parts, foreigner," from peregre (adv.) "abroad," properly "from abroad, found outside Roman territory," from per "away" (see per ) + agri , locative of ager "field, territory, land, country" (from PIE root *agro- "field").

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"through, by means of," 1580s (earlier in various Latin and French phrases, in the latter often par ), from Latin per "through, during, by means of, on account of, as in," from PIE root *per- (1) "forward," hence "through, in front of, before, first, chief, toward, near, around, against."

Proto-Indo-European root meaning "field;" probably a derivative of root *ag- "to drive, draw out or forth, move."

It forms all or part of: acorn ; acre ; agrarian ; agriculture ; agriology ; agro- ; agronomy ; onager ; peregrinate ; peregrination ; peregrine ; pilgrim ; stavesacre .

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit ajras "plain, open country," Greek agros "field," Latin ager (genitive agri ) "a field," Gothic akrs , Old English æcer "field."

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What does the adjective peregrinate mean?

There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective peregrinate . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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The earliest known use of the adjective peregrinate is in the late 1500s.

OED's earliest evidence for peregrinate is from 1598, in the writing of William Shakespeare, playwright and poet.

peregrinate is a borrowing from Latin.

Etymons: Latin peregrīnātus , peregrīnārī .

Nearby entries

• perdurate, v. a1558–
• perduration, n. c1450–
• perdure, v. ?a1475–
• perduring, adj. 1664–
• père, n. 1619–
• Père David's deer, n. 1898–
• père de famille, n. 1820–
• père et fils, n. 1857–
• peregrinage, n. 1340–
• peregrinancy, n. 1674
• peregrinate, adj. 1598–
• peregrinate, v. 1593–
• peregrinating, n. 1830–
• peregrinating, adj. 1611–
• peregrination, n. a1460–
• peregrinator, n. 1610–
• peregrinatory, adj. 1773–
• peregrine, adj. & n. c1395–
• peregrinity, n. 1591–
• pereion, n. 1856–
• pereionite, n. 1967–

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peregrination

[ per-i-gr uh - ney -sh uh n ]

Synonyms: expedition , excursion , trip

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The humpbacks look built for flying, as much as for their undersea peregrinations.

After an arduous peregrination through the land of spirits, the brother found and secured his sister as directed.

This proposition being readily acceded to, the party set forth upon their intended peregrination.

Returning one day from such a peregrination, he determined to end a routine of existence so humiliating to his pride.

The purse of Ascham was not equal to the expense of peregrination; and, therefore, he hoped to have it augmented by a pension.

Leaving him to pursue his toilsome peregrination, we return once more to the cavern of Kalyb.

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peregrinate

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English [ edit ]

Pronunciation [ edit ].

• ( US ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈpɛ.ɹɪ.ɡɹəˌneɪt/

Etymology 1 [ edit ]

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

Verb [ edit ]

peregrinate ( third-person singular simple present peregrinates , present participle peregrinating , simple past and past participle peregrinated )

• 1828 , [James Fenimore Cooper ], “To Sir Frederick Waller, Bart. of Somersetshire, England”, in Notions of the Americans: Picked Up by a Travelling Bachelor. In Two Volumes , volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey , Lea & Carey ,   [ … ] , →OCLC , page 1 : 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.
• 1935, G. de Purucker, The Esoteric Tradition, Part Two [1] He came first to recognise, then finally to know and to feel, that just as the atoms of his own physical body peregrinate by efflux and influx in and out of his body, so does he as a human ‘life-atom’ or human Monad peregrinate by unceasing influx and efflux in and out of the regular series of his earth-lives which succeed one another uninterruptedly during his sojourn in a Planetary Round on this globe Earth of the planetary chain, and much, very much, more.
• 2000, Brenda Maddox, Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom [2] 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.
• 1876, Edward S. Wheeler, Scheyichbi and the Strand [3] History records no popular tumult, except of tongues, about the matter, but Jesse Hand never fully regained the regard of some people, and jealousy and distrust, like a curse, followed his new-fangled equipage; and though he and his generation are long since dead, yet the writer hath knowledge of traditions that, still drawn by attenuated and discouraged equines, a very Wandering Jew of vehicles, Jesse Hand’s carriage still peregrinates , at a toilsome pace, the interminable, sandy, woodland roads of Jersey.
• 1913, Marguerite Pollard, “The Message of Edward Carpenter,” in Theosophist Magazine [4] 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 [5] 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.

Derived terms [ edit ]

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Translations [ edit ], etymology 2 [ edit ].

From Latin peregrinatus ( “ having travelled abroad ” ) , past participle of peregrinari .

Adjective [ edit ]

peregrinate ( comparative more peregrinate , superlative most peregrinate )

• c. 1595–1596 (date written) , W. Shakespere [ i.e. , William Shakespeare ], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost.   [ … ] (First Quarto), London: [ … ] W [ illiam ] W [ hite ] for Cut [ h ] bert Burby , published 1598 , →OCLC ; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5 ), London: W [ illiam ] Griggs,   [ … ] , [ 1880 ] , →OCLC , [Act V, scene i]: 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.
• 1853 , Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton ], chapter IV, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life   [ … ] , volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons , →OCLC , book first, page 21 : 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 [6] 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.

Anagrams [ edit ]

• reparteeing , repartéeing , rerepeating

Italian [ edit ]

• second-person plural present indicative
• second-person plural imperative

Participle [ edit ]

peregrinate   f   pl

• feminine plural of peregrinato

Latin [ edit ]

peregrīnāte

• vocative masculine singular of peregrīnātus

Spanish [ edit ]

• second-person singular voseo imperative of peregrinar combined with te

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