peregrinity

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The quality of being foreign or strange.

   • It will be correct, that is, free from faults, if the tongue bee loose, articulate, sweet, and polite: that is, in which no tone of rusticity or peregrinity is discoverable.
   • somewhat of a peregrinity in their dialect
2. 2

   The status of being a non-citizen in Ancient Rome.

   • There were different grades of peregrinity, however, as socii in general; socii nominis Latini; dedititii; yet they could attain to individual privileges, as, for instance, those of connubium (Liv. xxxi . 31.).
   • Eucrates mentioned in the next line, was an Athenian general, noted for corrupt practices, treachery, and peregrinity.
   • […] similar in character is the law introduced by the consuls Crassus and Scaevola forbidding a non-citizen to pose as a citizen—such a person was said to be accused of peregrinity.
3. 3

   Travel

   Travel; wandering.

   • A new removal, what we call 'his third peregrinity,' had to be decided on; and it was resolved that Rome should be the goal of it[.]
   • Upon reviewing this unbalanced itinerary, I can only conclude that I have been suffering from a bad case of peregrinity (or as I should perhaps refer to it: peregrinosis) .
   • Thus in this case [of peregrinity] one must attend only to whether the planet lies in the sign of a friend or an enemy, a topic that we treated in Book 15, chapter 14 of htis volume.

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