Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Moving or walking about.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Walking; moving from place to place; shifting.
- In heraldry, walking: said of a beast used as a bearing.
- In pathology, shifting about from place to place; ambulatory: as, ambulant edema.
Wiktionary
- adj. Able to walk.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Walking; moving from place to place.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. able to walk about
Etymologies
- French, from Latin ambulāns, ambulant-, present participle of ambulāre, to walk.
Examples
“The Asclepiades treated patients in the temples, but the Pythagoreans visited from house to house, and from city to city, and were known as the ambulant or periodic physicians.”
““Ghull,” a collar of iron or other metal, sometimes made to resemble the Chinese Kza or Cangue, a kind of ambulant pillory, serving like the old stocks which still show in England the veteris vestigia ruris.”
“The team composed of Belgian topographers and Turkish architects is a kind of ambulant group, making plans and elevations as the excavations go on and recording each piece of ashlar or decorated building element before it is removed.”
“Ghull," a collar of iron or other metal, sometimes made to resemble the Chinese Kza or Cangue, a kind of ambulant pillory, serving like the old stocks which still show in”
“What it was, of course, I'll never know, but whatever it was resulted in quick relief to the extent that Jack was up and ambulant the next morning ready to run a foot race.”
“I grabbed a carving knife from a rack beside the sink but the ambulant arm stopped in the doorway.”
“Bovines in the wild, for instance, spend most of their waking hours in a state of slow, ambulant grazing, walking an average of 2.5 miles a day, all the while taking 50 to 80 bites of forage per minute.”
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“Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood by Taras Grescoe opens with a horrifyingly poetic description of a monkfish as the “Quasimodo of the Atlantic” whose “uncooked flesh, especially the liver can be virtually ambulant with marine worms”.”
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“Beati immaculati in via, qui ambulant in lege Domini.”
“* Paradoxe ambulant, je suis insondable mais dans tous les cas extemement manipulateur (mais pas hypocrite) et possessif (mais pas jaloux).”
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