ambulatory
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
ambulatory
adj 1: relating to or adapted for walking; "an ambulatory
corridor"
2: able to walk about; "the patient is ambulatory" [syn:
{ambulant}, {ambulatory}]
n 1: a covered walkway (as in a cloister); "it has an ambulatory
and seven chapels"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ambulatory \Am"bu*la*to*ry\, a. [L. ambulatorius.]
1. Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of
walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory
animal.
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2. Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary;
movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its
jurisdiction in different places.
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The priesthood . . . before was very ambulatory, and
dispersed into all families. --Jer. Taylor.
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3. Pertaining to a walk. [R.]
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The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory
view in his travels. --Sir H.
Wotton.
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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.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "ambulatory":
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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