Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Performing like a ropewalker.
  • Pertaining to or characteristic of rope-walking.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Performing like a ropedancer.
  • adjective Narrow, like the walk of a ropedancer.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Performing in the manner of a tightrope walker.
  • adjective narrow, like a tightrope

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Examples

  • 'Tread softly and circumspectly in this funambulatory track, and narrow path of goodness; pursue virtue virtuously: leaven not good actions, nor render virtue disputable.

    Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878

  • TREAD softly and circumspectly in this funambulatory [24] track and narrow path of goodness: pursue virtue virtuously: leven not good actions nor render virtues disputable.

    Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863

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