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Entry 5 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Ambulatory

/ăm'-byəl-ət-ôrˌ-ē/ · Am·bu·la·to·ry · IPA /ˈam.bjə.ləˌtoɹ.i/
01 a. Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.
  1. 1.
    Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.
  2. 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. 3.
    Pertaining to a walk.[R.]
    “The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels.” Sir H. Wotton.
  4. 4.
    Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.(Law)
02 n. A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.
pl. Ambulatories
  1. 1.
    A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.(Arch.)