The Devil's Dictionary: Peripatetic

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
PERFECTION
PERORATION

PERIPATETIC

-adj.

Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless precaution - they knew no more of the matter than he.

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