单词 | deambulatory |
释义 | deambulatoryadj.n. 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). < adj.n.1430 |
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