adj. & n.
--adj.
1. (of a teacher) working in more than one school or college etc.
2 going from place to place; itinerant.
3 (Peripatetic) Aristotelian (from Aristotle's habit of walking in the Lyceum whilst teaching).
--n. a peripatetic person, esp. a teacher.
Derivatives:
peripatetically adv. peripateticism n.
Etymology: ME f. OF peripatetique or L peripateticus f. Gk peripatetikos f. peripateo (as PERI-, pateo walk)