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Webster 1913 Edition

Pilgrim

Pil′grim

,
Noun.
[OE.
pilgrim
,
pelgrim
,
pilegrim
,
pelegrim
; cf. D.
pelgrim
, OHG.
piligrīm
, G.
pilger
, F.
pèlerin
, It.
pellegrino
; all fr. L.
peregrinus
a foreigner, fr.
pereger
abroad;
per
through +
ager
land, field. See
Per-
, and
Acre
, and cf.
Pelerine
,
Peregrine
.]
1.
A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.
Strangers and
pilgrims
on the earth.
Heb. xi. 13.
2.
One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee;
as, a
pilgrim
to Loretto; Canterbury
pilgrims
. See
Palmer
.
P. Plowman.

Pil′grim

,
Adj.
Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages.
“With pilgrim steps.”
Milton.
Pilgrim fathers
,
a name popularly given to the one hundred and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth in 1620. They were separatists from the Church of England, and most of them had sojourned in Holland.

Pil′grim

,
Verb.
I.
To journey; to wander; to ramble.
[R.]
Grew. Carlyle.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pilgrim

PIL'GRIM

,
Noun.
[L. peregrinus. Gu.L. peragro, to wander, palor.]
1.
A wanderer; a traveler; particularly, one that travels to a distance from his own country to visit a holy place, or to pay his devotion to the remains of dead saints. [See Pilgrimage.]
2.
In Scripture, one that has only a temporary residence on earth. Heb.11.

PIL'GRIM

,
Verb.
I.
To wander or ramble. [Not used.]

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