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peregrinate [per-i-gruh-neyt]

verb:
to travel or journey, especially to walk on foot.

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Everywhere on the rim of the island, which I peregrinate with my companionable driver, G Douglas Wijerathna, I see scooters and tuk-tuks ferrying surfers to beaches and breaks, schools and camps. (Chandrahas Choudhury, Sri Lanka's South Coast Is the Next Great Lifestyle Destination, Condé Nast Traveller, March 2024)

For those who like to peregrinate without actually going anywhere, virtual reality is just the ticket, the next best thing to astral projection (something I'm dying to try). (James Wolcott, Sunglasses After Dark, Air Mail, November 2022)

He followed that with 'Wonder Boys,' a witty campus farce in which Chabon's pen continued to peregrinate all over Pittsburgh in prose which still reveled in the many wonders to be discovered here. (Kristofer Collins, Book Reviews: Michael Chabon's 'Moonglow', Pittsburgh Magazine, October 2016)

I go there on the 10th to remain till May; but I am sorry to say I see little hope of my being able to peregrinate to far Provence - all benignant though your invitation be. (Henry James, The Letters of Henry James)

The old showman and his literary coadjutor were already tackling their horses to the wagon, with a design to peregrinate southwest along the seacoast. (Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Seven Vagabonds)

Origin:

'to travel from place to place,' 1590s, from Latin peregrinatus, past participle of peregrinari 'to travel abroad, be alien,' figuratively 'to wander, roam, travel about,' from peregrinus 'from foreign parts, foreigner,' from peregre (adv.) 'abroad,' properly 'from abroad, found outside Roman territory,' from per 'away' + agri, locative of ager 'field, territory, land, country' (from PIE root agro- 'field'). (Online Etymology Dictionary)

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.) (Merriam-Webster)