deambulatory

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English

Etymology

Latin deambulatorium.

Pronunciation

Noun

deambulatory (plural deambulatories)

  1. (dated) A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory.

Adjective

deambulatory (not comparable)

  1. Going about from place to place; wandering.
    • 1670, Thomas Morton, ‘Episkopos Apostolikos, or the Episcopacy of the Church of England justified to be Apostolica :
      Deambulatory actors.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for deambulatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)