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peregrinate
verb (used without object)
to travel or journey, especially to walk on foot.
More about peregrinate
The verb peregrinate, 鈥渢o go on a journey on foot,鈥� comes from Latin 辫别谤别驳谤墨苍腻迟耻蝉, the past participle of 辫别谤别驳谤墨苍腻谤墨 鈥渢o travel abroad,鈥� a derivative of the adjective and noun 辫别谤别驳谤墨苍耻蝉 鈥渁lien, foreign; an alien, a foreigner,鈥� formed from the adverb 辫别谤别驳谤墨 鈥渁way from home, abroad.鈥� In Roman republican and imperial law, a 辫别谤别驳谤墨苍耻蝉 was a free person or a free community that did not have Roman citizenship (the vast majority of the inhabitants of the Empire). Late Latin 辫别谤别驳谤墨苍耻蝉 became 辫别濒别驳谤墨苍耻蝉 by a common dissimilation (compare the spelling colonel with its pronunciation). 笔别濒别驳谤墨苍耻蝉 has its own history, becoming the source of pilgrim. Peregrinate entered English in the late 16th century.
how is peregrinate used?
Regardless of how they get there, they seem to peregrinate in a fog, for which they can hardly be blamed …
"Welcome to 袘褉邪泄褌芯薪 袘懈褔, Brooklyn," New York Times, December 14, 2018
I had peregrinated further to the little hamlet of B眉rglen, and peeped into the frescoed chapel which commemorates the hero鈥檚 natal scene.
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Jedi
noun
a person who has an unexplainable power over people or things, or who seems to enjoy unusual luck and positive outcomes, as if able to exert the power of the Force to mystically influence the universe: The defense lawyer was a jedi鈥攖wo minutes into his closing argument the jury forgot all of the incriminating evidence that had been presented.
More about Jedi
If you are from a galaxy far, far away, you will know what a Jedi is (a member of an order of warrior monks). The order and word were formed a long, long time ago in another galaxy, but in this one the word dates only to 1973.
how is Jedi used?
In the Senate, the outspoken Paul and McConnell, the methodical Jedi of the upper chamber, would sometimes disagree on tactics.
In December 2010, McGuire made a pilgrimage to听Black Sheep Bikes听in Fort Collins, Colo., to learn at the hands of an acknowledged Jedi of bike frame fabrication, James Bleakley.
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domicile
noun
a place of residence; abode; house or home.
More about domicile
Domicile is a very legal-sounding word. Its general meaning is 鈥減lace of residence, abode, house or home鈥�; its legal meaning is 鈥減ermanent legal residence, as for tax obligations or voting rights.鈥� (Thus one may be domiciled in New York, paying state income taxes there and voting there, but also have a weekend residence in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.) Domicile comes from Middle French, from Latin domicilium, formed from the noun domus 鈥渉ouse, home鈥� and the suffix –cilium, of uncertain etymology, but probably derived from colere 鈥渢o live in, inhabit, dwell鈥� (the source of English colony). Latin domicilium has no legal meaning. Domicile entered English in the 15th century.
how is domicile used?
We drove into an older section of the downtown, down a street of brick row houses, and ended up in front of the family’s old domicile …
Choosing the latter alternative, I began by making up my mind to leave the hotel, and take up my quarters in some less pretentious and less expensive domicile.听
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