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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ambulatory \Am"bu*la*to*ry\, n.; pl {Ambulatories}. [Cf. LL ambulatorium.] (Arch.) A place to walk in whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ambulatory \Am"bu*la*to*ry\, a. [L. ambulatorius.] 1. Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as an ambulatory animal. 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. Pertaining to a walk. [R.] The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels. --Sir H. Wotton. 4. (Law) Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ambulatory adj : able to walk about "the patient is ambulatory" [syn: {ambulant}]
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