| 释义 | ▪ 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.
1593Nashe Christ's T. 28 That Sepulcher..which you perigrinate to adore. 1632Lithgow Trav. i. 9 They haue perigrinated to know the life of States. 1793W. Roberts Looker-on No. 39 (1794) II. 82 It is of late the custom to peregrinate by night. 1812Scott Let. to J. B. S. Morritt 12 Oct. in Lockhart, We peregrinated over Stanmore, and visited the Castles of Bowes..and Brougham. 1864London Soc. VI. 392 She peregrinated calmly in a pinched bonnet.
b. To sojourn in a foreign country.
1755Johnson, Peregrinate,..to live in foreign countries.
c. trans. To travel along or across; to traverse.
1835Fraser's Mag. XI. 33 The path I was about to peregrinate was..hackneyed beyond conception. 1878Besant & Rice Celia's Arb. II. xvii. 271, I pick up rags and tatters of information as I peregrinate the streets. 1885G. Meredith Diana of Crossways II. ii. 55 He could have wished himself peregrinating a bridge.
Hence ˈperegriˌnating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1611Cotgr., Pelerinant, peregrinating, wandering, or going on Pilgrimage. 1805E. de Acton Nuns of Desert I. 293 Not one thought was bestowed upon the peregrinating culprits. 1862Westm. 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.)
1588Shakes. 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. 1853Lytton My Novel i. iv, Imagine this figure, grotesque, peregrinate, and to the eye of a peasant, certainly diabolical. |
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