peragration Now rare.
(pɛrəˈgreːʃən)
[ad. L. peragrātiōn-em, n. of action from peragrāre: see prec.]
The action of peragrating; a travelling through or traversing.
| 1611 Cotgr., Peragration, a peragration,..wandering through, trauelling ouer. 1676 Glanvill Ess. iii. 49 What are Aristotle's peragrations of Asia, to all these? a 1677 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. vii. 188 By the successive peragration of these Waters. |
† b. month of peragration (Astron.): the period of the moon's revolution from any point of the zodiac to the same point again; a sidereal (or tropical) month. (Cf. consecution 2 d.) Obs.
| 1561 Eden tr. Cortez' Arte Nauig. ii. xi. 38 This is called the moneth of peragration. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 212 A month of Peragration..containeth but 27. dayes, and about 8. howres. 1694 Holder Disc. Time vi. 69 The moon has two accounts of her circuit,..one her periodic month, or month of peragration:..the other is her synodic month. |