pilgrim, pelegrim, pilegrim, pylgrim

& a. [O. Fr. pelegrin, pelerin, from Latin pere grin us = a stranger, a foreigner, from pereger =a traveler: per = over, acro , and ager a land, a country; Fr. pélerin; Prov. pellegrins; Sp. & Port. peregrino; Ital. peregrino, pellegrino; O. H. Ger. piligrim; Dan. pilgrim; Dut. pelgrim; Sw. pele. grim: German pilger. Pilgrim and peregrine are doublets.] A. As substantive: 1. A traveler, a wanderer, a stranger; spec if., one who travels to a distance from his own land to visit some holy place or shrine, or to pay his devotions at the shrine of some saint. palmer, see PALMER, 8. 1. For the distinction between a pilgrim and a 2. In Script .: One living in this world, but who does not look on it as his home; one who looks forward to life in a heavenly country. (Heb. xi. 13.) *B. As adj .: Of or pertaining to pilgrims or pilgrimages. ( Milton : P. R. , iv. 42.) IMG:content-1074.png:[blocks in formation] *pilgrim-salve, s . 1. An old kind of ointment. 2. Ordure. ( Harl . Miscell ., vi. 137.) †pil-grim, v . i. [PILGRIM, 8.] To make a pilgrimage; to wander, to ramble.