peregrinate
/ˈpɛ.ɹɪ.ɡɹəˌneɪt/
peregrinate verb: to travel from place to place, or from one country to another, especially on foot; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.
Verb
peregrinate (third-person singular simple present peregrinates, present participle peregrinating, simple past and past participle peregrinated)
- 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...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...
- 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...1935, G. de Purucker, The Esoteric Tradition, Part Two http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN1417982810&id=xgoCsmI375EC&pg=PA765&lpg=PA765&dq=peregrinate&sig=pi0MJ50aG19SYuBfTLHF6TSE4nI
- To travel through a specific place.
- 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...1876, Edward S. Wheeler, Scheyichbi and the Strand http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN1417920904&id=LCyGcTb-Af8C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=peregrinates&sig=JqFzQzvC5TOwqRCgiL9-NKEoQxI
- 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.”1913, Marguerite Pollard, “The Message of Edward Carpenter,” in Theosophist Magazine http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0766152537&id=zv1eXjb-TZMC&pg=PA829&lpg=PA829&dq=peregrinate&sig=1_9...
Adjective
peregrinate (comparative more peregrinate, superlative most peregrinate)
- 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.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...
- 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...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...
peregrinate meaning in Bengali and Kannada
peregrinate in Bengali
- ভ্রমণ করা, ঘুরে বেড়ানো
peregrinate in Kannada
- ಅಲೆದಾಡು, ಸುತ್ತಾಡು
Forms of peregrinate
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | peregrinates |
| present participle | peregrinating |
| past participle | peregrinated |
| past | peregrinated |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more peregrinate |
| superlative | most peregrinate |
Origin of peregrinate
From Latin peregrinari (“to live or travel abroad”). See also peregrine and pilgrim.
From Latin peregrinatus (“having travelled abroad”), past participle of peregrinari.
Words formed from peregrinate
Questions about peregrinate
- What does peregrinate mean?
- Peregrinate means to travel from place to place, or from one country to another, especially on foot; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.
- What is peregrinate in Bengali?
- Peregrinate in Bengali is ভ্রমণ করা, ঘুরে বেড়ানো. See Peregrinate meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is peregrinate?
- Peregrinate can be a verb or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce peregrinate?
- Peregrinate is pronounced /ˈpɛ.ɹɪ.ɡɹəˌneɪt/ (US).
- What is the past tense of peregrinate?
- The past tense of peregrinate is peregrinated.
Words near peregrinate in the dictionary
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