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minifter took care of his education; and, being brought 
up to the church, he was made a doctor of the Sorbonne, 
and preached with applaufe. He was chofen to be pre¬ 
ceptor to Louis XIV. and fome time after was nominated 
to the fee of Rhodez ; but, as he could not fulfil the 
duties of both thefe fundfions, he refigned his bilhopric. 
In if 54 he was admitted into the French Academy. By 
the king’s command, he cotnpofed an abridgment of 
French hiftory, from which he detached the Life of Henry 
IV. and it was publifhed at Ainfterdam in i66i,and with 
augmentations at Paris the year after. The la ft Paris 
edition is of 1749. Though written in a negligent ftyle, 
it is accounted an excellent work, and one which gives a 
better picture of that amiable monarch than the fuller 
hiftory of Father Daniel. Perefixe likewife publifhed a 
1 ’fnall piece, entitled “ Inllitutio Principis,” 1647, being 
a plan of royal education during the period of childhood. 
In 1664 he was created archbifhop of Paris, and had the 
fortune to be deeply involved in the quarrels of Janfen- 
ifm. He was governed by the Jefuits ; and it was by the 
advice of Father Annat that he publifhed his mandement 
for the pure and fimple fignature of the Formulary of 
Alexander VII. He imagined the diftinftion between 
divine faith and human faith, which pleafed the fanatics 
of neither party. He gave particular offence by requiring 
a fubfcription of the Formulary from the nuns of Port- 
royal, and thence has been painted in unfavourable co¬ 
lours by the writers of that party. His private charac¬ 
ter, however, was mild and amiable. He died at an ad¬ 
vanced age in 1676. 
PERE'G AL, adj. [French.] Equal. Obj'olete. 
Whilom thou waft peregal to the beft, 
And wont to make the jolly fhepherds glad ; 
With piping and dancing didft pafs the reft. Spenfer. 
PEREGRFNARY,/I [peregrinarius, Lat.] In the an¬ 
cient monnfteries, a monk to whom was committed the 
■care of receiving and entertaining ftrangers, or vifitors. 
To PER'EGRINATE, v. n. [pertgrinor, Lat.] To 
travel; to live in foreign countries. 
PEREGRINA'TION, f [French.] Travel in foreign 
countries.—That we do not contend to have the earth 
pafs for a paradife, we reckon it only as the land of our 
peregrination, and afpire after a better country. Bentley. 
PEREGRINATOR, /. [Latin.] A traveller.—He 
makes himfelf a great peregrinator, to fatisfy his curiofity, 
or improve his knowledge in natural things. Cajaubou on 
Credulity. 
Mr. Todd derives this word from the verb to peregri¬ 
nate ; but it is pure Latin. Cicero fays, “ Non (dmJuni 
peregrinator jam ejudm Jblebam. JEdificia mea me delect ant. 
1 am not fo much of a peregrinator as I ufed to be. 
Railing new buildings keeps me at home, and delights 
me.” Cic.fam. i. 18.—Here we note the real feelings of a 
man getting old. He gives up vifiting diftant places; he 
lives quietly upon his eftate; looks about his own 
grounds; improves his premifes with new edifices, and 
Juitable additions to his family-manfion ; and endeavours 
to find at home the diverfions which, when young, he 
fought for abroad. Such a man was this highly-efteemed 
confular perfonage, M. T. Cicero. Etymological Glean¬ 
ings, MS. 
PER'EGRINE, adj. [ peregrin, old Fr. now pelerin ; pe- 
regrinus, Lat.] Foreign; not native; not domeftic.—The 
received opinion, that putrefaftion is caufed by cold or 
peregrine and preternatural heat, is but nugation. Bacon's 
Nut.HiJl. —A term applied, among aftrologers, to a planet, 
when found in a fign where it has none of its five effen- 
tial dignities. 
PEREGRIN'ITY, [ [ peregrinitc, old Fr.] Strange- 
nefs.— Mr. Bofwell fays, that Dr. Johnfon coined this 
word ; and, upon being afked if it w'as an Englifh one, he 
replied No. See his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. 
It is, however, an old Englifh word ; and, being inferred 
in the vocabulary of Cockeram, early in the feventeenth 
century, may be prefumed to have been in ufe; but it is 
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not worthy to be revived. Todd.— Thefe people, fir, that 
Gerrard talks of, may have fomewhat of a peregrinity in 
their dialed!, which relation has augmented to a different 
language. Bofwell's Tour, 2d edit. 
PEREGRI'NUS, furnamed Proteus, a cynic philofo- 
pher in the fecond century, was a native of Parium in 
Pontus. If we are to credit the account which Lucian 
has given of him, his conduit in early life was profligate 
and flagitious; having been guilty of adultery when he 
had fcarcely reached the age of manhood, and even fuf- 
pedted of ftrangling his own father, in order to get pof- 
feflion of his eftate. Being obliged to fly from his 
country, he went to Paleftine, where he made aprofeflion 
of Chriftianity, and gained a temporary credit with the 
Chriftians, by his firmnefs in fubmitting to imprifonment 
under Trajan’s perfecution, fooner than renounce his 
avowed principles. During his confinement, he was 
vifited by deputies from the churches of Afia, who libe¬ 
rally adminiftered to his relief; and, in the charadler of 
a perfecuted believer, he contrived to amafs a confidera- 
ble fum of money. At length lie was fet at liberty by 
the governor of Syria, who was a lover of philofophy, 
and admired the contempt of death which Peregrinus 
difplayed. Upon this he returned to Parium, where he 
fecured exemption from the punifhment due to his crimes, 
by furrendering his property to the ufe of the city, and 
acquired reputation in the charadler of a difinterefted phi- 
lofopher. By the charity of the Chriftians, whom he ftill 
continued to deceive, he was furniftied with all neceflary 
fupplies, till, having been dete&ed in the commiftion of 
fome crime, he was difmifled from their fociety, and fell 
into indigence. He now endeavoured to recover the pof- 
feflion of his eftates from the city, by the intervention of 
the imperial authority; but failed in that defign, and 
went into Egypt. Here, in the chara&er of a mendicant 
cynic, he praftifed the moll: extravagant exploits of fana- 
ticifm, in order to (how his contempt for the opinion of 
the world. From Egypt he went to Italy and Rome, 
where he poured forth the moft indecent inveffives againft 
men ofrank, arid even the emperor himfelf, whofe bounty 
he experienced ; till at length the prefect was provoked 
to drive him from the city. Paffing over into Greece, 
he attracted the admiration of the crowd at Athens, by 
the feverity of his cynical manners, and the leisures 
which he delivered. 
Finding, by degrees, their enthufiafm in his favour be¬ 
coming lefs ardent, he determined to procure an immortal 
name, by burning himfelf at the Olympic games, in imi¬ 
tation of Hercules. This defign he announced through¬ 
out the whole of Greece; and, at the appointed time, 
went to Olympia, where, in the prefence of a vaft con- 
courfe of fpeftators, he raifed a funeral-pile, and devoted 
himfelf to voluntary death. By the weaker part of the 
affembled multitude this aftion was highly applauded, 
and Peregrinus was fpoken of as worthy of divine ho¬ 
nours ; but it was properly condemned by the wife, and 
finely expofed by Lucian, who obferves, that, of all who 
have been plagued with that paffion, the love of fame, 
there can fcarcely have been one who had fewer preten- 
fions to her favour than our cynic. 
In the foregoing particulars we have chiefly followed 
the Grecian fatirift; but it may be queftioned whether 
he has given a ftridlly impartial account of the charafter 
of Peregrinus : for Aulus Geilius (peaks of him as a phi- 
lofopher of reputation at Athens, who was admired for 
his conftancy, and whofe moral leisures were much fre¬ 
quented. The ftory of his laft mad adventure is probably 
true. According to Eufebius, he committed himfelf to 
the flames in the year 168. Lucian de Morte Peregrini. 
Aul. Gel. lib. xii. xiii. Enfield's Hijl. Phil. vol. ii. 
PERE'IRA (Bartholome), a Portuguefe Jefuit, and 
one of the many epic poets whom that extraordinary fo¬ 
ciety has produced. The work which he publiflied bears 
this title, “Paciecidos, libri 12.” Coimbre, 1640. It is 
rarely met with. Any perfon acquainted with Portu¬ 
guefe hiftory would fuppofe that Pacheco to be the hero 
whofe 
