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ambulant

[am-byuh-luh nt]
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adjective
  1. moving from place to place; itinerant; shifting.
  2. Medicine/Medical. ambulatory(def 4).
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Origin of ambulant

1645–55; (< F) < Latin ambulant- (stem of ambulāns, present participle of ambulāre to walk). See amble
Related formsun·am·bu·lant, adjective
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Related Words

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Historical Examples

  • Thus do the ambulant images of God cloak their shackles proudly, and divert the judicious with their boastful shouts.

    In Defense of Women

    H. L. Mencken

  • At first it occurred to me that it might be an ambulant dog-kennel, to receive the hounds on their return.

    Arthur O'Leary

    Charles James Lever

  • Once with the title stamped on his memory, the zealous Irishman might be trusted to become an ambulant advertizer.

  • The encounter with these ambulant Highnesses had been fatal—Lansing now perceived it—to Mrs. Hicks's principles.

  • Formerly people were content to paste them up; now they are ambulant.

British Dictionary definitions for ambulant

ambulant

adjective
  1. moving about from place to place
  2. med another word for ambulatory (def. 3)
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Word Origin and History for ambulant

adj.

1610s, from Latin ambulantem (nominative ambulans), present participle of ambulare (see amble). Of diseases, denoting cases in which the patient may be up and around, by 1913.

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ambulant in Medicine

ambulant

(ăm′byə-lənt)
adj.
  1. Moving or walking about.
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