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peregrination

[ per-i-gr uh - ney -sh uh n ]

Synonyms: expedition , excursion , trip

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The humpbacks look built for flying, as much as for their undersea peregrinations.

After an arduous peregrination through the land of spirits, the brother found and secured his sister as directed.

This proposition being readily acceded to, the party set forth upon their intended peregrination.

Returning one day from such a peregrination, he determined to end a routine of existence so humiliating to his pride.

The purse of Ascham was not equal to the expense of peregrination; and, therefore, he hoped to have it augmented by a pension.

Leaving him to pursue his toilsome peregrination, we return once more to the cavern of Kalyb.

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intransitive verb

transitive verb

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We begin our narrative of the linguistic travels of peregrinate with the Latin word peregrinatus , the past participle of peregrinari , which means "to travel in foreign lands." The verb is derived from the Latin word for "foreigner," peregrinus , which was earlier used as an adjective meaning "foreign."That term also gave us the words pilgrim and peregrine , the latter of which once meant "alien" but is now used as an adjective meaning "tending to wander" and as a noun naming a kind of falcon. (The peregrine falcon is so named because it was traditionally captured during its first flight—or pilgrimage—from the nest.)

• cut (across)
• pass (over)
• perambulate
• proceed (along)

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1593, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

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What does the adjective peregrinate mean?

There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective peregrinate . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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How is the adjective peregrinate pronounced, british english, u.s. english, where does the adjective peregrinate come from.

Earliest known use

The earliest known use of the adjective peregrinate is in the late 1500s.

OED's earliest evidence for peregrinate is from 1598, in the writing of William Shakespeare, playwright and poet.

peregrinate is a borrowing from Latin.

Etymons: Latin peregrīnātus , peregrīnārī .

Nearby entries

• perdurate, v. a1558–
• perduration, n. c1450–
• perdure, v. ?a1475–
• perduring, adj. 1664–
• père, n. 1619–
• Père David's deer, n. 1898–
• père de famille, n. 1820–
• père et fils, n. 1857–
• peregrinage, n. 1340–
• peregrinancy, n. 1674
• peregrinate, adj. 1598–
• peregrinate, v. 1593–
• peregrinating, n. 1830–
• peregrinating, adj. 1611–
• peregrination, n. a1460–
• peregrinator, n. 1610–
• peregrinatory, adj. 1773–
• peregrine, adj. & n. c1395–
• peregrinity, n. 1591–
• pereion, n. 1856–
• pereionite, n. 1967–

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peregrinate, adj. was revised in September 2005.

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English [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ].

From Middle English peregrin , borrowed from Old French peregrin , from Latin peregrīnus ( “ foreign ” ) . Doublet of pilgrim .

Pronunciation [ edit ]

Adjective [ edit ].

peregrine ( comparative more peregrine , superlative most peregrine )

• Wandering , travelling , migratory . The Romani are perpetually peregrine people.
• Not native to a region or country; foreign ; alien .
• ( astrology , of a planet ) Lacking essential debility.
• 1631 , Francis [Bacon] , “ (please specify |century=I to X) ”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries.   [ … ] , 3rd edition, London: [ … ] William Rawley ; [ p ] rinted by J [ ohn ] H [ aviland ] for William Lee   [ … ] , →OCLC : peregrine and preternatural heat
• 1946 , Mervyn Peake , Titus Groan : As soon as she had smiled her face altered again, and the petulant expression peregrine to her features took control.

Noun [ edit ]

peregrine ( plural peregrines )

• The peregrine falcon .
• ( dated ) A foreigner ; a person resident in a country other than his or her own.

Synonyms [ edit ]

• ( foreigner ) : alien , outlander , strangeling ; see also Thesaurus:foreigner

Related terms [ edit ]

• peregrine hawk
• peregrinate
• peregrination

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Verb [ edit ].

• first / third-person singular present subjunctive
• third-person singular imperative

Italian [ edit ]

• IPA ( key ) : /pe.reˈɡri.ne/
• Rhymes: -ine
• Hyphenation: pe‧re‧grì‧ne
• feminine plural of peregrina

Latin [ edit ]

• vocative singular of peregrīnus

Portuguese [ edit ]

Spanish [ edit ].

• IPA ( key ) : /peɾeˈɡɾine/ [pe.ɾeˈɣ̞ɾi.ne]
• Syllabification: pe‧re‧gri‧ne

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Prefixes are key morphemes in English vocabulary that begin words. The English prefix per- , which means “through,” appears in hundreds of English vocabulary words, such as per ish and per son. You can remember that the prefix per- means “through” via the word per manent, for something that is per manent stays intact “through” the years.

A New Perspective on "Per-"

Today we will focus on the prefix per- , which means “through.” Let’s go “through” a number of examples of words with per- in them to make the meaning of this prefix per manent in your memory.

Has anyone ever given you per mission to cut in line, sending you “through” others to the front? After you were per mitted to do so, did you per spire or have sweat breathe “through” your skin as others gave you the evil eye? Wouldn’t it be great if you could per manently go to the front of any line, thereby remaining there “through” all time? Then that privilege would only end after you per ish, or go completely “through” your lifetime.

People go “through” things every day. Imagine life where you live. A man you know might per ambulate, or walk “through” your neighborhood with his dog. The artist living next door might need to per forate a piece of metal for a sculpture, or bore holes “through” it. The gardener across the street might be planting per ennials, or flowers that come up “through” the years, reappearing again and again. This gardener might also be watering her vegetables in per meable soil, which allows water to pass “through” it.

Courthouses are per vasive in this country, or go “through” it from one end to the other. Some unwilling visitors to those courts might have committed per fidy, or broke a promise of some kind by disloyally going “through” another’s trust. An example of such per fidy in the courtroom is per jury, or swearing “through” one’s oath to tell the truth, hence lying during the courtroom proceedings. Imagine a poor judge who has to spend so many hours listening to all these problems—at some point the judge might consider her duties merely per functory, just wanting to get “through” with them already.

Now you should per manently be one of those per sons who knows that the prefix per- means “through.” Oh, and the word “ per son?” The face “through” which you speak is you, a per son “through” whom the prefix per- frequently sounds.

• permission : act of sending “through” a request
• permit : to send “through” a request
• perspire : to have sweat breathe “through” your skin
• permanent : a staying “through”
• perish : to go completely “through” a lifetime
• perambulate : to walk “through” a place or area
• perforate : to punch or bore holes “through” a material
• perennial : of coming up “through” the years
• permeable : capable of passing “through”
• pervasive : of going “through”
• perfidy : act of going “through” another’s trust
• perjury : swear “through” an oath
• perfunctory : of just getting “through” something
• person : one who sounds “through” a face

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If you are im per vious to things, such as someone's actions or words, you are not affected by them or do not notice them.

peregrination

A per egrination is a long journey or act of traveling from place to place, especially by foot.

Someone who is per fidious is not loyal and cannot be trusted.

If something is per vasive, it appears to be everywhere.

When a substance per meates something, it enters into all parts of it.

perspicacity

Someone who demonstrates per spicacity notices or understands things very quickly.

Something that is of paramount importance or significance is chief or supreme in those things.

A parvenu is someone who has recently become wealthy or more powerful and consequently has achieved a higher social position; nevertheless, they have yet to be socially accepted by their new peers due to their unfamiliarity with advanced social status.

If someone per mits you to do something, they allow you to do it.

When someone per ishes, they die, usually due to violence or a dangerous occurrence.

make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation

excrete per spiration through the pores in the skin

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So. many. ways to journey..

I stood on the edge of the cliff, overlooking the cold green-grey northern sea. I was depleted and alive, lessened and larger from a week of hiking and climbing hard along the West Coast Trail. The far west coast of Vancouver Island in Canada. On an out breath, I felt, maybe even saw, the shining essence of me leave my body and circle earth, like a crow's eye survey, taking in the world’s details and vastness in a breath. I felt essence complete the circle, sphere really, as it returned through the back of me. The planet, from that perspective of my eye that sees the unseen, from the planetary crow’s eyes, was aglow.

There, after weeks of pilgrimage across northern Spain, I stood, finally, in the small squared stone vestibule under the altar of the 1000-year-old cathedral in Santiago. I take in the other half-dozen people, the two-person prie-dieu, the ancient wood bench at the back. I was, finally, in the presence of the destination: Santiago, St. James, or rather the carved-silver casket hosting his bones sitting in a deep niche—and I wept. It was the older woman who had been in the lineup behind me also waiting to enter this holy cave one pilgrim at a time, who held me and didn’t say a word.

I sat grounded, in meditation, trance really, watching with my inner eyes, listening with my inner ears, noticing with every inner sense what and who would show up today. It was my main healing guide plus the four Elders who support most everything I do on the other side, in the unseen realms. This healing guide making herself known tells me that it’s time for a self-healing since I’m sitting on my own and not with a client. So, I journey in, then listen to and watch her for about thirty minutes as she does a healing for me.

I take a ten-minute break from the computer. I put on my invisible-to-others pilgrimage hat and take a walk down to the shoreline. There I sit on my favourite perch and listen. I hear: waves, oyster catchers, a Canada goose, my own breath, human conversation, and a voice within. Rest , it says. And so I do.

A stormy version of my perch!

I step through the façade into Chartres Cathedral in France utterly in awe of its beauty, its sacred geometry. I stop while my eyes adjust to the darker interior and I can see people walking the famous stone-in-stone labyrinth ahead. I’m twenty steps into the nave when a boy about eight years old runs in past me at top speed, he shrugs off his school-day backpack, then sends it sliding to the righthand stone wall base. Two other boys run in behind him. The first boy runs the labyrinth! The whole eleven layers of it, right to the centre. He sits, bursts into tears and covers his face with his hands. The other two boys follow him shortly after. Then the three of them run off together.

Pilgrimage. Walk. Wander. Wend one’s way.

On a path. Get lost. Find your way. Fly. Roam.

Travel. Sojourn. Way fare. Stroll. Meander.

Journey. Seek. Run. Mission. Follow a call.

Odyssey. Quest. Migration…

Peregrination.

Like the falcon. Yes, that’s a super chatty Peregrine Falcon that I’m holding in the photo here and on my Substack account.

The word nerd in my wanted to know more about peregrination and it’s roots:

Etymology peregrination  (n.)

early 15c.,  peregrinacioun , "a journey, pilgrimage," hence, later, "roaming or wandering about in general," from Old French  peregrination "pilgrimage, long absence" (12c.) or directly from Latin  peregrinationem  (nominative  peregrinatio ) "a journey, a sojourn abroad," noun of action from past-participle stem of  peregrinari  "to journey or travel abroad," figuratively "to roam about, wander," from  peregrinus  "from foreign parts, foreigner," from  peregre  (adv.) "abroad," properly "from abroad, found outside Roman territory," from  per  "away" (see  per ) +  agri , locative of  ager  "field, territory, land, country" (from PIE root  *agro- "field"). The earlier English word was  peregrinage (mid-14c.).

In a former business undertaking I created a space entirely focused on pilgrimages of one sort or another. It’s a theme in my life, a through thread. It’s one of the ways I navigate virtually everything. Local labyrinths, long intentional journeys in various parts of the world, or simply just putting on a pilgrimage-hat to walk to the grocery store or the shore, are all ways I wend my way and help others do so too.

At the time, I wrote a short eBook called 10-Minute Pilgrimage that I may revitalize here under the Gathering Roots umbrella. Let me know if you are interested. I characterized these journeys as In Here or Out There Pilgrimages and noticed that sometimes pilgrimages were accidental. But they don’t have to be long an onerous to be beneficial. In Here Pilgrimages could also be called inner journey work or include some kinds of meditation or healing work. Out There Pilgrimages entail some sort of movement externally, but you don’t have to go far. You can even pilgrimage within your own living or work space.

Being on peregrination of all kinds is a big part of the healing work I’ve done for myself over the years. It’s rich, rich ground. It now underpins a part of how I show up for you as a healer. 

I do inner journeys for myself and for clients most days now. Self-healing and healing work for others prompts visits an extensive community of guides, allies and beautiful beings on the other side. They have a lot to offer.

Truth is, I’m not really interested in travel for travel’s sake anymore, but I am interested in Out There Pilgrimages. Our latest big pilgrimage was a seven-week drive across Canada in the summer/fall of 2022, to see, eventually, the place I was born along the Ontario/Quebec border to which I had not yet returned. And back. Along the way we also visited other places from my and my husband’s past as well, including his birthplace. It was our:

Pilgrimage of Remembrance…

Remembering ourselves to the lands

Remembering who we are

Remembering where we came from 

Remembering deep ancestral practices,

ways, beauty, beings, traumas, joys,

magic, heartbreaks, loves…

Remembering ourselves into the future 

Next up… perhaps, is a pilgrimage to some of my Norwegian and Sámi homelands. The Moen farm (read: colonists of Sámi people) is still there and there are still Moens living on it.

Stay tuned…

There will be more about peregrination here as I move into this work more and more. I’m looking forward to sharing including #pilgrimagetobeauty photos, such as the photos below, like I did for so many years and some of you have said that you miss seeing. Bless you.

More always at www.gatheringroots.ca . <3

If you would like to delve more deeply into pilgrimage, peregrination, journeying you might like to sit one-to-one. Here’s the link to book.

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And much love, Nicole

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peregrine (n.)

also peregrin , type of large, spirited falcon, 1550s, short for peregrine falcon (late 14c.), from Old French faulcon pelerin (mid-13c.), from Medieval Latin falco peregrinus , from Latin peregrinus "coming from foreign parts," from peregre (adv.) "abroad," properly "from abroad, found outside Roman territory," from per "away" (see per ) + agri , locative of ager "field, territory, land, country" (from PIE root *agro- "field"). The original implications of the term in falconry are not clear; they may have been of a bird "caught in transit," as opposed to one taken from the nest. Peregrine as an adjective in English meaning "not native, foreign" is attested from 1520s.

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"through, by means of," 1580s (earlier in various Latin and French phrases, in the latter often par ), from Latin per "through, during, by means of, on account of, as in," from PIE root *per- (1) "forward," hence "through, in front of, before, first, chief, toward, near, around, against."

Proto-Indo-European root meaning "field;" probably a derivative of root *ag- "to drive, draw out or forth, move."

It forms all or part of: acorn ; acre ; agrarian ; agriculture ; agriology ; agro- ; agronomy ; onager ; peregrinate ; peregrination ; peregrine ; pilgrim ; stavesacre .

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit ajras "plain, open country," Greek agros "field," Latin ager (genitive agri ) "a field," Gothic akrs , Old English æcer "field."

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