Peripatecian
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Noun[edit]
Peripatecian (plural Peripatecians)
- (obsolete) A peripatetic; one who accepts the views of Aristotle.
- 1856, Pierre-Victor Renouard, History of Medicine from Its Origin to the Nineteenth Century, page 310:
- He proceeds constantly from generals to particulars, according to the method of Aristotle and Galen, to which he strictly conforms, true Peripatecian as he was...
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Peripatecian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)