Definition of Pilgrem
Pil"grim (?), n. [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, a. 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, v. i. To journey; to
wander; to ramble. [R.] Grew. Carlyle.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was
one who, leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms
through his nose, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could
personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- one who travels, especially on a journey to visit sites of religious significance
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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