ambulatory Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a covered walkway (as in a cloister)
    • it has an ambulatory and seven chapels
  2. adjective relating to or adapted for walking
    • an ambulatory corridor
  3. adjective satellite able to walk about
    ambulant.
    • the patient is ambulatory

WordNet

Am"bu*la*to*ry adjective
Etymology
L. ambulatorius.
Definitions
  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.
Am"bu*la*to*ry noun
Etymology
Cf. LL. ambulatorium.
Wordforms
plural Ambulatories
Definitions
  1. (Arch.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.

Webster 1913