Dictionary entry

Ambulatory

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Am″bu‐la‐to‐ry (�), 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.

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.