Ambulatory

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ambulatory \Am"bu*la*to*ry\, n.; pl. {Ambulatories}. [Cf. LL.
     ambulatorium.] (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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ambulatory
       adj : able to walk about; "the patient is ambulatory" [syn: {ambulant}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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