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Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers. "The true peripatetic school." Howell.

Peripatetic. [R.] Hales.

The doctrines or philosophical system of the peripatetics. See Peripatetic, n., 2. Lond. Sat. Rev.

A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda.

Surrounding, or situated about, the petals.

Of or pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery; peripheric.

See Peripheral.

The outside or superficial portions of a body; the surface.

ea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution. "To describe by enigmatic periphrases." De Quincey.

See Periphrase.

Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are necessary; characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory. Periphrastic conjugation (Gram.), a conjugation formed by the use of the simple verb with one or more auxiliaries.

With circumlocution.

Same as Periblast. -- Per`i*plas"tic, a. Huxley.

Pneumonia. (Obsoles.)

Of or pertaining to peripneumonia.

The region surrounding the anus, particularly of echinoderms.

Inflammation of the tissues about the rectum.

Having columns on all sides; -- said of an edifice. See Apteral.

Peripteral.

The region surrounding a moving body, such as the wing of a bird or a gliding aëroplane, within which cyclic or vortical motion of the air occur.