pedestrianate

verb

pedestrianate

verb

Etymology From pedestrian + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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Archaic To travel by walking.

  • Beginning now to entertain ideas of prudence, Wickham determined to pedestrianate, not being yet reduced to the vulgarity of hired cabs and coaches; […]1840, The Metropolitan, volume 28, page 438:
  • I did not pedestrianate in any lonely neighborhoods, but on well-traversed, public highways.1886, Ben Goodkind, Roughing it from California Through France, page 71:

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