What's the difference between errant and peripatetic?

Errant


Definition:

  • (a.) Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving.
  • (a.) Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant.
  • (a.) Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.
  • (n.) One who wanders about.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, said he would be astonished if the coalition had not enacted a lobbyists' register and a power to recall errant MPs by 2015.
  • (2) To do that, it needed to stamp down on errant food industry practices.
  • (3) "Fighter jets will fly in shifts, giving 24-hour coverage over the president's airspace, so they can intervene quickly if an errant plane gets too close."
  • (4) They also produced soft boots with Velcro straps, parent-friendly, one-strap bindings (though kids can also ride without) and a Riglet Reel tow rope that tacks on to the front of the board so that you can pull your toddler along like an errant spaniel, while giving them a good idea of the snow-riding sensation they are aiming for.
  • (5) The lead stood at two goals before Andre Marriner's errant judgment.
  • (6) That’s why a boycott is such an ineffective path to shaming our errant oligarchs, particularly in the case of LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
  • (7) Fisher was forgiven and is busy organising for Momentum , the grassroots Corbyn campaign to bring errant MPs to heel.
  • (8) Being sutureless, no tension is placed on any layer; there is no damage to tissues from an errant suturing technique.
  • (9) Neonatal patients received the lowest rate of errant orders.
  • (10) The next few days will be critical as Beijing weighs up its options, but for now the likelihood is that China will chose cautious diplomatic hedging rather than decisive action against its errant North Korean ally.
  • (11) 49 min: Another half-hearted Paraguay attack ends in failure, when an errant pass is played straight to the feet of one of New Zealand's very well organised back three.
  • (12) Ministers are to revive shelved plans for laws to be introduced before 2015 to regulate lobbyists and recall errant MPs following days of sleaze allegations which may well have damaged the standing of parliament.
  • (13) Can he get these errant types – known disparagingly as à la carte or cafeteria Catholics – to dine from the fixed menu?
  • (14) The purpose of this study was to record prospectively the frequency of and potential harm caused by errant medication orders at two large pediatric hospitals.
  • (15) Mr Holder is also pressing voting rights lawsuits across the county that directly challenge Chief Justice John Roberts’s errant view that the era of racial discrimination in the United States is over.
  • (16) One of my clients waited until midnight for his errant son to visit to play Scrabble with him – the son never arrived.
  • (17) He was prevented from giving Liverpool the first major Premier League win of the Brendan Rodgers' era only by an assistant referee's errant flag for offside in stoppage time.
  • (18) Vickers said Ipso would have an investigative arm and would impose tough sanctions on errant publishers, including fines of up to £1m for systemic wrongdoing, giving it "absolute teeth, very real teeth".
  • (19) As far as much of the audience is concerned, these errant former child stars seem like exotic commodities to be traded on the scandal market, although they are also clearly just young people living under abnormal levels of scrutiny.
  • (20) The combined results of the mutation and adduct characterizations suggest that there are basic differences in the structural configuration of each adduct species which are recognized during errant DNA repair and as a result lead to base changes at a frequency which is relatable to the configuration of the original adduct lesion.

Peripatetic


Definition:

  • (a.) Walking about; itinerant.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers.
  • (n.) One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.
  • (n.) A disciple of Aristotle; an Aristotelian.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We recommend the development of a peripatetic service as outlined in this study, offering health care at hostels, day centres and other places where the homeless are to be found.
  • (2) One story has it that his own brand of philosophy became known as the peripatetic (wandering) school because he walked around as he lectured.
  • (3) Her peripatetic childhood was down to her high-achieving father, John W Hunt, now emeritus professor of organisational behaviour at the London Business School.
  • (4) When Stefan Zweig , forced into a peripatetic life by the rise of Nazism, arrived in New York in 1935, he was persistently asked to make a statement about the treatment of the Jews in Germany.
  • (5) He once wrote of Victor Pasmore's late abstract diversity: "The works are eccentric, peripatetic.
  • (6) His tenure here is his 15th at a 14th club, twice leading Vitória Sétubal in a peripatetic career that has taken in the bright lights of Sporting and Besiktas.
  • (7) A less dramatic but no less important valedictory observation was made in an interview earlier in the week , when Sir Michael was asked about the pace of constant upheaval in school structures and the curriculum at the education department during his time at Ofsted: “I have learned this not just as chief inspector but also as a headteacher: that change sometimes has to be slow and incremental.” In a peripatetic political culture, that can be a hard lesson for politicians to heed.
  • (8) The result will be an ever more peripatetic, mobile and insecure young adult population – compelled to move home more regularly, at the whims of an increasingly muscular landlord class, to areas that are cheaper and less well connected.
  • (9) Unfortunately that was not the only trio in her life: she also had to hold down three jobs to make ends meet, leaving full-time employment in school to do home visits four evenings a week for two peripatetic teaching contracts, as well as weekend babysitting “My children don’t understand,” she said.
  • (10) There has long been a fear of including the self-taught in the world of high art, says James Brett, founder of the Museum of Everything , a peripatetic collection of unclassifiable and undiscovered art that has taken up residence at London’s Tate Modern as well as Selfridges department store.
  • (11) This paper deals with the early results and problems of establishing and developing a regional training programme in psychotherapy, using peripatetic senior lecturers.
  • (12) Born in July 1971, he led a peripatetic life (his mother, who campaigned on a number of causes, was in a touring theatre group) and, in the 1980s, went by the "handle" – a hacker's online monicker – of Mendax.
  • (13) All the other women in my family are magnificent matriarchs with beautiful, well-organised homes, while the role I've played until now has been peripatetic and undomesticated.
  • (14) Kathak (meaning storyteller) grew from ancient, peripatetic bards interpreting the mythological tales of the Indian epics.
  • (15) A little further afield, Akadimias Platonos park is where Plato had his peripatetic philosophy school.
  • (16) Success often depended on special provisions-for example, transport, aids to mobility, peripatetic physiotherapists.
  • (17) I would favour a peripatetic parliament, rather like a medieval court, visiting all parts of the kingdom.
  • (18) Sebald allows this to lie beneath the text – a discoverable and psychic subtext; and just as he neglects to inform us of why Rousseau's paranoid and haunted final years should have had such a resonance for him, so this compulsively peripatetic and ambulatory writer also leaves off the list of distinguished writerly pilgrims to Rousseau's happy isle the greatest British walker-writer of them all, Worsdworth, who tramped all the way there in 1788, en route to his own liaison with revolutionary apotheosis.
  • (19) A peripatetic educational development team based at the medical school completes the link by helping community hospital physicians identify educational needs and develop educational responses, using both local and medical school experts as faculty.
  • (20) I touched base with him again yesterday to ask whether he felt his peripatetic presence undermined his protest.