pedestrianate

English

Etymology

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

Verb

pedestrianate (third-person singular simple present pedestrianates, present participle pedestrianating, simple past and past participle pedestrianated)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To travel by walking.
   • 1840, The Metropolitan, volume 28, page 438:

     Beginning now to entertain ideas of prudence, Wickham determined to pedestrianate, not being yet reduced to the vulgarity of hired cabs and coaches; […]

   • 1886, Ben Goodkind, Roughing it from California Through France, page 71:

     I did not pedestrianate in any lonely neighborhoods, but on well-traversed, public highways.