▪ I. peregrinate, v.
(ˈpɛrɪgrɪˌneɪt)
(Also 6–7 erron. peri-.)
[f. L. peregrīnāt-, ppl. stem of peregrīnārī to sojourn or travel abroad, f. peregrīn-us foreign, a foreigner: see peregrine. Cf. F. pérégriner, Sp. peregrinar, It. peregrinare, to go on pilgrimage.]
intr. To travel, journey.
| 1593 Nashe Christ's T. 28 That Sepulcher..which you perigrinate to adore. 1632 Lithgow Trav. i. 9 They haue perigrinated to know the life of States. 1793 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 39 (1794) II. 82 It is of late the custom to peregrinate by night. 1812 Scott Let. to J. B. S. Morritt 12 Oct. in Lockhart, We peregrinated over Stanmore, and visited the Castles of Bowes..and Brougham. 1864 London Soc. VI. 392 She peregrinated calmly in a pinched bonnet. |
b. To sojourn in a foreign country.
| 1755 Johnson, Peregrinate,..to live in foreign countries. |
c. trans. To travel along or across; to traverse.
| 1835 Fraser's Mag. XI. 33 The path I was about to peregrinate was..hackneyed beyond conception. 1878 Besant & Rice Celia's Arb. II. xvii. 271, I pick up rags and tatters of information as I peregrinate the streets. 1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways II. ii. 55 He could have wished himself peregrinating a bridge. |
Hence ˈperegriˌnating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1611 Cotgr., Pelerinant, peregrinating, wandering, or going on Pilgrimage. 1805 E. de Acton Nuns of Desert I. 293 Not one thought was bestowed upon the peregrinating culprits. 1862 Westm. Rev. Jan. 65 Peregrinating bishops produce no effect upon them. |
▪ II. ˈperegrinate, a. rare.
[f. L. peregrīnāt-us having travelled or sojourned abroad, pa. pple. of peregrīnārī.]
Foreign-fashioned, having the air of one who has lived or travelled abroad. (A purposely pedantic term put by Shakespeare into the mouth of Holofernes; thence taken by Lytton.)
| 1588 Shakes. L.L.L. v. i. 15 Ped... He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odde, as it were, too peregrinat, as I may call it. Curat. A most singular and choise Epithat. 1853 Lytton My Novel i. iv, Imagine this figure, grotesque, peregrinate, and to the eye of a peasant, certainly diabolical. |