disambulatory

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English

Noun

disambulatory (plural disambulatories)

  1. (architecture) An extension of the ambulatory that allows one to walk along the sides of a cathedral.
    • 1961, Stanley Richard Baron, The Road to Barcelona, and the Costa Brava:
      Another bomb came through the disambulatory roof and vaulting and made a direct hit on one of the four stone pillars carrying the tower crossing and the iron spire

Adjective

disambulatory (comparative more disambulatory, superlative most disambulatory)

  1. Unable to walk with ease.
    • 1989, Richard Engling, Body Mortgage, page 26:
      It affected its victims like an airborne LSD — and certainly left them “disambulatory.”
    • 2018, Les Edgerton, Monday's Meal:
      I wasn't even close to her, being knocked out and disambulatory.
    • 2019, Ken West, My Pagan Ancestor Zuri: A Parallel Journey:
      It's all perambulatory to disambulatory because nobody tells us that with increasing indolence our body bulk balloons.