Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Moving or walking about.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Walking; moving from place to place.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to
walk .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective able to walk about
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine James Sands Elliott
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“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.
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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.
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"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
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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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.
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I grabbed a carving knife from a rack beside the sink but the ambulant arm stopped in the doorway.
Blood Lite II: Overbite Kevin J. Anderson 2010
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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”.
BOTTOMFEEDER: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood | Impact Lab 2009
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Beati immaculati in via, qui ambulant in lege Domini.
Iustus Es, Domine bls 2009
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Beati immaculati in via, qui ambulant in lege Domini.
Archive 2009-09-01 bls 2009
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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.
Nicolette Hahn Niman: Avoiding Factory Farm Foods: An Eater's Guide 2009
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