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Word For The Day, Monday, November 13, 2006 - peripatetic
dictionaries ad nauseum, internet | November 13, 2006 | secret garden

Posted on 11/13/2006 4:30:24 AM PST by secret garden



In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

peripatetic \pair-uh-puh-TET-ik\, adjective
1. Of or pertaining to walking about or traveling from place to place; itinerant.
2. Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers.
3. One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.
4. A follower of Aristotle; an Aristotelian.

Example sentence:
I was born in Italy, my sister on the west coast of Canada, because my father was pursuing a peripatetic career as an artist.
-- Anna Shapiro, USA Today, July 13, 2000

Etymology:
Peripatetic derives from Greek peripatetikos, from peripatein, "to walk about," from peri-, "around, about" + patein, "to walk.".

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate

WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!


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1 posted on 11/13/2006 4:30:26 AM PST by secret garden
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To: secret garden; JoanVarga; Jack Deth; K4Harty; miskie; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; MoochPooch; ...

Rise and shine!


2 posted on 11/13/2006 4:31:29 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: secret garden

Risen and shining!


3 posted on 11/13/2006 4:34:36 AM PST by Gabz
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To: secret garden

thanks for opening, subbie!~


4 posted on 11/13/2006 4:35:40 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: secret garden
First? Top Ten?

The chef is here. Good eats for everyone.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

5 posted on 11/13/2006 4:44:35 AM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: secret garden
I think peripatetic is too pedestrian a word.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

6 posted on 11/13/2006 4:49:01 AM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: secret garden

Morning, y'all!


7 posted on 11/13/2006 4:55:20 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance (I'm back!)
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To: secret garden

Would all you WFTD ping list holders please make sure I am on your list, and you can delete Toby06, he's dead.


8 posted on 11/13/2006 4:56:33 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance (I'm back!)
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To: secret garden
the peripatetic islamic jihad includes running for office, and destroying the land of the infidel from within.
9 posted on 11/13/2006 5:02:10 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: secret garden

Morning!

The peripatetic 'rat supporters
Who bestirred themselves to vote
Did less than supposed "conservatives"
Who kept that raft afloat

By staying home and pouting
Like they did some years ago
That time we got X42-
This time we will get snow

A snow job that is, from the liberals
Masquerading as regular guys
And sending up their test balloons
To see if one of them flies

I'm off to work as soon as I finish this bid-back later...


10 posted on 11/13/2006 5:05:12 AM PST by Texan5 (You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line...)
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To: secret garden

Calvin and Hobbes: Just a pair of pathetic peripatetics!!!

- Compliments of cartoonist Watterson!


11 posted on 11/13/2006 5:28:16 AM PST by MortMan (I was going to be indecisive, but I changed my mind.)
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To: secret garden

I have Risen. Now where's the thermos.... can't get through a Monday just on personality and an orange.


12 posted on 11/13/2006 5:34:16 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: secret garden

And I think we used this word before, about 18 months ago... a Tuesday.


13 posted on 11/13/2006 5:35:24 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Gabz

14 posted on 11/13/2006 5:40:23 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: xsmommy
No prob!
15 posted on 11/13/2006 5:41:30 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: LonePalm
Time to find a new ribbon. A for you!
16 posted on 11/13/2006 5:42:44 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: secret garden
Ever since the reactionary Left's victory in the French Reveolution, peripatetic thought has been suppressed in favor of very patheric thoughts such as nihilism and relativism.
17 posted on 11/13/2006 5:43:16 AM PST by NeoCaveman (Congratulations to Michelle Bachman, Steve Chabot, Mark Wahlberg, Adrian Smith and other CFGers)
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To: secret garden
Good Morning!

The soul of the Republican Party,
In a peripatetic daze,
Is bumping into some old hard truths,
It once knew as its older ways.

The party of smaller government,
In its bloated attempt to be cool,
Has discovered a dampened enthusiasm,
Since Ted tried to take them to school.

18 posted on 11/13/2006 5:59:26 AM PST by NicknamedBob (If the Supreme Court has "Judges for Life," why is there any question about Roe vs Wade?)
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To: secret garden
PA's daily lottery number coming up "666" on election night was Nick Perry-patetic.

SD

19 posted on 11/13/2006 6:10:19 AM PST by SoothingDave (Save the Cheerleader. Save the World.)
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To: Letaka

I'm sorry, today i can only use the word "pathetic" You know why.


20 posted on 11/13/2006 6:11:05 AM PST by Shimmer128 (My beloved is mine and I am his, Song of Sol 2:16)
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