Definition of "peripatetic"

peripatetic

/ˌpɛɹ.ɪ.pəˈtɛt.ɪk/

adjective
comparative more peripatetic, superlative most peripatetic
1. Tending to walk about.
2. Constantly travelling.
  Quotations
  After peripatetic upbringing that took her from America to Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium and England, [Mary-Kay] Wilmers read French and Russian at Oxford.
  2014 March 9, Elizabeth Day, “Is the LRB the best magazine in the world?”, in The Observer‎
3. (philosophy, usually capitalized) Alternative letter-case form of Peripatetic
  Quotations
  The true peripatetic school.
  1642, James Howell, Instructions For Foreign Travel
noun
plural peripatetics
1. One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.
2. (philosophy, usually capitalized) Alternative letter-case form of Peripatetic (“Aristotelian”)
  Quotations
  He who would think clearly must think like a peripatetic even if he is unwilling to walk like one.
  1961, Albert Upton, Design for Thinking: A First Book in Semantics, section 11