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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or relating to perambulation; walking or moving about.

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Examples

  • Each clause begins with a present participle (called a perambulatory phrase) and ends with a comma.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • The region's most prominent dissident, Egyptian sociologist Saad Edin Ibrahim, suddenly finds himself in a kind of perambulatory exile, hopping from conference to conference--in nine countries in the last three months.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • The region's most prominent dissident, Egyptian sociologist Saad Edin Ibrahim, suddenly finds himself in a kind of perambulatory exile, hopping from conference to conference--in nine countries in the last three months.

    Bad News: Saad is back in the cross-hairs 2007

  • The forerunner to this perambulatory quest is Alfred Kazin's classic memoir "A Walker in the City" 1951, which guides readers through and beyond the Brooklyn streets of the author's childhood.

    Roaming on Urban Streets Sam Sacks 2011

  • The cathedral provided the medieval mind with an "engine for prayer," facilitating private meditation and communal ritual proceedings, as well as the perambulatory flow of pilgrims across Europe towards the earthly Jerusalem. 172 75

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Another casualty is likely to be your feet in Accomplice, a walking performance around Southwark that's a bit like a perambulatory version of a murder-mystery evening.

    Accomplice 2010

  • Kellen gathered his scattered and perambulatory wits.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • Have a happy perambulatory TRIP-BIZ in our country, sir.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • Beliefs are at least indirect evidence of underlying epistemic practices and intellectual ability in a way that skin color or gender or perambulatory ability arenot.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Affirmative Action for Conservative Academics? 2007

  • Perhaps Mr. Caesar had brought back our perambulatory pizza peddler to teach his understudy a few lessons.

    powerofrock Diary Entry powerofrock 2004

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