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Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.

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  1. a. Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.
  2. a. Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places.
  3. a. Pertaining to a walk.
  4. a. Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.
  5. n. A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.
  6. adj. relating to or adapted for walking
  7. adj. able to walk about
  8. n. a covered walkway (as in a cloister)
  9. 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. A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.
  10. Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable;as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of thetestator.
  11. j:100 n. a covered walkway (as in a cloister) a. relating to or adapted for walking