ambulant, ambulatory
(adjective) able to walk about; “the patient is ambulatory”
ambulatory
(adjective) relating to or adapted for walking; “an ambulatory corridor”
ambulatory
(noun) a covered walkway (as in a cloister); “it has an ambulatory and seven chapels”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ambulatory (comparative more ambulatory, superlative most ambulatory)
Of, relating to, or adapted to walking
(comparable, medicine) Able to walk about and not bedridden.
(medicine) Performed on or involving an ambulatory patient or an outpatient.
Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.
(legal) Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.
ambulatory (plural ambulatories)
The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.
Any part of a building intended for walking in; a corridor.
Source: Wiktionary
Am"bu*la*to*ry, a. Etym: [L. ambulatorius.]
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. [R.] The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels. Sir H. Wotton.
4. (Law)
Definition: Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.
Am"bu*la*to*ry, n.; pl. Ambulatories. Etym: [Cf. LL. ambulatorium.] (Arch.)
Definition: A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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