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单词 deambulatory
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deambulatoryadj.n.

Etymology: < Latin deambulātōrius fit for walking in, etc., whence deambulātōrium, noun, place to walk in.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: deˈambulatory.
A. adj.
Moving about from place to place; movable, shifting.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > in connection with employment
deambulatory1607
peripatetic1607
peripatetical1633
itinerant1661
ambulating1716
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Cc2/1 In Scotland the Eschequer was stable, but the other session was deambulatorie.
?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome ii. iii. 254 In it self vnequall, wauering, deambulatorie.
a1659 Bp. T. Morton Ἐπισκοπος Ἀποστολικος (1670) 142 The deambulatory actors used to have their quietus est.
B. n.
A place to walk in for exercise; esp. a covered walk or cloister.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > ambulatory
walking placec1384
deambulatory1430
peramble1440
ambulatory1483
deambulatoura1522
walk1530
perambulatory1636
1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xi Fresche alures..That called were deambulatoryes, Men to walke to geder twayne & twayne, To kepe them drye when it dyde rayne.
1447 Will Hen. VI in T. J. Carter King's Coll. Chapel 13 Of the which [cloistre square] the deambulatorie xiiij fete wide.
1834 Gentleman's Mag. 104 i. 55 An inscription in a Roman garden informed the walker, that when he had made five turns of the deambulatory he had completed a mile.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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