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单词 ambulation
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ambulationn.

Brit. /ˌambjᵿˈleɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌæmbjəˈleɪʃən/
Forms: 1500s ambulacion, 1500s ambulacyon, 1500s– ambulation.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin ambulātiōn-, ambulātiō.
Etymology: < classical Latin ambulātiōn-, ambulātiō act of walking, walking as exercise, walk taken for pleasure, in post-classical Latin also ‘spreading of a disease’ (14th cent. in a British source) < ambulāt- , past participial stem of ambulāre ambulate v. + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare earlier perambulation n.Compare Middle French, French ambulation, Middle French ambulacion spreading of a disease (1314 in Old French in an apparently isolated attestation), act of walking (1370; compare Anglo-Norman ambulation walking of bounds, perambulation (1413 or earlier in a legal context)), Old Occitan ambulacio act of walking (14th cent. in an isolated attestation), Italian ambulazione act of walking (mid 14th cent.; first half of the 14th cent. in the sense ‘space for walking’).
1. The spreading of a disease or pathological condition from one part of the body to another. Cf. ambulant adj. 3a, ambulative adj. 1, ambulatory adj. 4a. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > necrosis > spreading of
ambulation?1541
?1541 R. Copland Formularye Aydes Apostemes in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens sig. Riv To drye the rottennesse that is..blody, and vyrulent, and after nede to deffende the ambulacyon.
1565 J. Hall tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. ii. xiii. 29 But laye aboute it a defensiue of Bole Armeniake, to defende the ambulation and corrosion.
1837 J. Kitchen tr. J. Bouillaud New Res. Acute Articular Rheumatism 44 Does this character of mobility, or of ambulation of articular rheumatism,..constitute an irreconcileable contradiction with its inflammatory nature which we have recognized?
2. The action or process of walking or moving about; an instance of this. Also (in plural): wanderings, ramblings.In quot. 1554 probably: a way, a path.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun]
gangeOE
walkinga1325
ambulation1554
footing1567
sashaying1935
society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun]
walkinga1325
spacingc1485
ambulation1554
footing1567
hoofing1652
Shanks' (or Shanks's) mare, ponya1774
pedestrianizing1799
pedestrianism1808
ankle express1887
1554 M. Huggarde Path waye to Towre of Perfection sig. E.ii The way leding to dampnation, Is a very large ambulacion.
1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes 7 Persons which feede upon grosse meates..may use vehementer exercise and stronger ambulations [L. contentiore deambulatione].
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man iv. f. 57v Ambulation..in man, is made by the one legge fastened one the earth, and the other taken from the same, and circumlated.
1658 W. Sanderson Compl. Hist. Life King Charles 62 She must progresse her Ambulations so far as Tyburn Gallows.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xvii. 388/2 Ambulation, or Walking,..is contrary to the violent and laborious act of running.
1737 Gentleman's Mag. July 441/2 The door is free, And calls him to evade their deaf'ning clang By private ambulation.
1766 Monthly Rev. 34 App. 498 Let us delight in ambulation, the contemplation of nature, and in reading.
1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 45 779 A style of ambulation peculiarly crustacean!
1885 R. W. Dixon Hist. Church Eng. III. xix. 320 The bishop was confined to his house..through the summer and autumn, with a certain liberty of ambulation.
1922 ‘R. West’ Judge ii. viii. 406 Their ambulations had brought them to the orchard gate again.
1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 4 Nov. 1131/1 In ambulation the man alternately commits his full weight to one leg, while he swings the other into position.
2011 Las Cruces (New Mexico) Sun-News (Nexis) 12 Aug. Thor has clearly mastered the art of three-legged ambulation, and was getting around just fine alongside Hahn's other dog.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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