AMBULATORY

a. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.

2.
a.

Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places. The priesthood . . . before was very ambulatory, and dispersed into all families. Jer. Taylor.

3.
a.

Pertaining to a walk. [R.] The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels. Sir H. Wotton.

4.
a.

Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.

5.
n.

A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.


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