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Definition of Peripatetic

Perfection
Perfection
  PERIPATETIC   adjective
Walking about.  Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections.  A needless precaution -- they knew no more of the matter than he.
 

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The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Peroration
Peroration

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