Ambulatory

Definition of Ambulatory

Am´bu`la`to`ry
a.1.Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.
2.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.Pertaining to a walk.
The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels.
- Sir H. Wotton.
4.(Law) Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.
n.1.(Arch.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.

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access, aisle, alley, ambulant, ambulative, aperture, arcade, artery, avenue, channel, circuit-riding, cloister, colonnade, communication, conduit, connection, corridor, covered way, defile, exit, expeditionary, ferry, ford, gallery, globe-girdling, globe-trotting, going, inlet, interchange, intersection, itinerant, itinerary, journeying, junction, lane, locomotive, moving, mundivagant, nomadic, on tour, opening, outlet, overpass, pass, passage, passageway, passing, pedestrian, perambulating, perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrine, peripatetic, pilgrimlike, portico, progressing, railroad tunnel, roving, strolling, touring, touristic, touristy, traject, trajet, traveling, trekking, tunnel, underpass, vagabond, vagrant, walking, wayfaring
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