peripatetic
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Aristotle used to walk around with his students while he taught, keeping their restless bodies occupied in a West Wing–style pedagogy known as the Peripatetic school.
From Slate • May 11, 2017
Peripatetic and reflective, bookish and quietly beguiling, the narrator of “Land of Love and Ruins” has clear antecedents in the W.G.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2016
Peripatetic tributaries lashed out of control across the landscape.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2013
Peripatetic comrades in impressive, official-looking dress visit the peasants to ask if the roof is leaking or whether they need new farm equipment.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Clearchus the Peripatetic says that the Rhodians and Sicilians call plums βράβυλα, and so Theocritus the Syracusan uses the word— Heavy with plums, the branches swept the ground.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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