ambulant
[am-byuh-luh nt]
- moving from place to place; itinerant; shifting.
- 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
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Thus do the ambulant images of God cloak their shackles proudly, and divert the judicious with their boastful shouts.
In Defense of WomenH. 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'LearyCharles James Lever
Once with the title stamped on his memory, the zealous Irishman might be trusted to become an ambulant advertizer.
Diana of the Crossways, CompleteGeorge Meredith
The encounter with these ambulant Highnesses had been fatal—Lansing now perceived it—to Mrs. Hicks's principles.
The Glimpses of the MoonEdith Wharton
Formerly people were content to paste them up; now they are ambulant.
Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829.Hermann Pckler-Muskau
ambulant
- moving about from place to place
- 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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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
ambulant
(ăm′byə-lənt)- Moving or walking about.
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