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Definition of Peregrinate
1. Verb. Travel around, through, or over, especially on foot. "Peregrinate the bridge"
Definition of Peregrinate
1. v. i. To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.
2. a. Having traveled; foreign.
Definition of Peregrinate
1. Verb. (intransitive) To travel from place to place, or from one country to another, especially on foot; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To travel through a specific place. ¹
3. Adjective. (rare) Peregrine; having traveled; foreign, exotic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Peregrinate
1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peregrinate
Literary usage of Peregrinate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"Der. peregrinate, verb, rare, from Lat. pp. ... Also peregrinate, adj., LLL v.
1.15. in Curtius, i. 344. And see Folk, Populace. ..."
2. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1908)
"He is too pricked, too affected, too odd, as it were, too peregrinate, as I may
call it." To this his companion adds : " A most singular choice epithet. ..."
3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"peregrinate (rare), progress (archaic, exc. spec. ... Spec, traveler, excursionist,
expeditionary (rare), messenger, jaunter, peregrinate* (rare), voyager, ..."
4. Spanish Influence on English Literature by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume (1905)
"He signed himself thus in countless letters, and his affected play upon the word
was ceaseless. peregrinate is, and always has been, an extremely rarely ..."
5. An Analysis of Derivative Words in the English Language, Or, A Key to Their by Salem Town (1860)
"peregrinate, to travel from place to place. peregrinate-ed-ing-ion. common. un.
Remunerate, to recompense, or repay. Remunerate-ed-ion. ..."
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