Definition of Peregrin

1. a swift falcon much used in falconry [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peregrin

perdurably
perdurantism
perdurantist
perdurantists
perdure
perdured
perdures
perduring
perdus
perdy
pere
pere david's deer
perea
peregal
peregals
peregrin (current term)
peregrinate
peregrinated
peregrinates
peregrinating
peregrination
peregrinations
peregrinator
peregrinators
peregrine
peregrine-falcon
peregrine falcon
peregrine falcons
peregrines
peregrinities

Literary usage of Peregrin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The International Law and Custom of Ancient Greece and Rome by Coleman Phillipson (1911)
"In many of the departments of private law there were differences, greater or lesser, between the Roman law and peregrin law,8 and also between the various ..."

2. Historical Introduction to the Private Law of Rome by James Muirhead, Henry Goudy (1899)
"... competent to a man under the former, but none of those competent to him under the latter.14 SECTION 43.—THE INSTITUTION OF THE peregrin PRAETORSHIP The ..."

3. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1859)
"The following persons then would be included under peregrin!: 1. ... The condition of cives and peregrin! was unchanged ; but a third class, that of Latini, ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He wrote it out of love for his native place, "ne in nostra patria peregrin! atque hospites esse videamur". It embraces a period of eight centuries, ..."

5. The Institutes of Gaius and Rules of Ulpian: The Former from Studemund's by Gaius, Ulpian, Wilhelm Studemund, James Muirhead (1880)
"Nowhere has it a more ample exponent than in the edicts of the two praetors, the urban and the peregrin, whose jurisdiction is exercised in the provinces by ..."

6. Third and Final Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early by William Carew Hazlitt (1887)
"London : Printed by JC for Henry Fletcher, . . . 1658. 8°. A, 4 : B—G 2 in eights, besides the title and frontispiece. peregrin, JAMES [(pseud. ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Peregrin on Dictionary.com!Search for Peregrin on Thesaurus.com!Search for Peregrin on Google!Search for Peregrin on Wikipedia!

Search