Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Performing like a ropewalker.
- Pertaining to or characteristic of rope-walking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Performing like a ropedancer.
- adjective Narrow, like the walk of a ropedancer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Performing in the manner of a
tightrope walker . - adjective
narrow , like atightrope
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Examples
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'Tread softly and circumspectly in this funambulatory track, and narrow path of goodness; pursue virtue virtuously: leaven not good actions, nor render virtue disputable.
Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878
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TREAD softly and circumspectly in this funambulatory [24] track and narrow path of goodness: pursue virtue virtuously: leven not good actions nor render virtues disputable.
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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