ambulatory : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ambulatory	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for ambulatory
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ambulatory adj relating to or adapted for walking; "an ambulatory corridor" able to walk about; "the patient is ambulatory" Synonym(s): ambulant, ambulatory n a covered walkway (as in a cloister); "it has an ambulatory and seven chapels"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ambulatory \Am"bulato*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"bulatory\, 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.