Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of perambulating, or of passing or wandering through or over.
- noun A traveling survey or inspection; a survey.
- noun A district within which a person has the right of inspection; jurisdiction.
- noun A method used in early Scotch and English history, and thence followed in the colonial period in the United States, of determining and maintaining boundaries and monuments or marks of boundaries between the possessions of neighboring tenants, and between neighboring parishes, and thus to some extent of deciding disputed tenancies and rights of possession, and questions of taxation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of perambulating; traversing.
- noun An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc.
- noun obsolete, obsolete A district within which one is authorized to make a tour of inspection.
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- noun rare A
survey , atour ; a walking around. - noun law An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries
- noun a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
Etymologies
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Examples
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But we shall not omit an account of these places in our perambulation, which is guided by sense-limits rather than by arbitrary lines.
The Kensington District The Fascination of London Walter Besant 1868
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It is romantic, potent and playful at once, and perfectly captures the balance between monumentality and motion, between eternity and perambulation, which is the essence of museums.
The Guardian World News Rowan Moore 2011
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The Bishop and Synod did actually order a "perambulation" to be made to see if anything could be annexed from the adjacent parishes, especially
Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883
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To assert the extent of your land, you might hold a ceremony called a "perambulation," in which you would walk around and record the boundaries of your property in the presence of witnesses.
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"perambulation" of the park, some description of its present condition and appearance may help to form an opinion.
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For a start, he was far more than a man given to eccentricities in dress and weapon-like aids to perambulation.
Kevin Belmonte: The Genius Of G.K. Chesterton: Understanding The Heart Of The Enduring Story Kevin Belmonte 2011
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For a start, he was far more than a man given to eccentricities in dress and weapon-like aids to perambulation.
Kevin Belmonte: The Genius Of G.K. Chesterton: Understanding The Heart Of The Enduring Story Kevin Belmonte 2011
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For a start, he was far more than a man given to eccentricities in dress and weapon-like aids to perambulation.
Kevin Belmonte: The Genius Of G.K. Chesterton: Understanding The Heart Of The Enduring Story Kevin Belmonte 2011
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Instead, a frenziedly spirited troupe of backing dancers is left to pick up the slack, while Britney clambers aboard various moving parts of machinery and is wheeled around like an ancient maiden aunt being taken for her morning perambulation in a bath chair.
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For a start, he was far more than a man given to eccentricities in dress and weapon-like aids to perambulation.
Kevin Belmonte: The Genius Of G.K. Chesterton: Understanding The Heart Of The Enduring Story Kevin Belmonte 2011
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