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perambulation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perambulation \Per*am`bu*la"tion\, n.
The act of perambulating; traversing.
--Bacon.An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc.
A district within which one is authorized to make a tour of inspection. ``The . . . bounds of his own perambulation.'' [Obs.]
--Holyday.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Anglo-Latin (c.1300) and Anglo-French perambulacion, from Medieval Latin perambulationem (nominative perambulatio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin perambulare (see perambulate).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context rare English) A survey, a tour; a walking around. 2 (context legal English) An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Perambulation means "walking around". In traditional English law, it is used specifically to mean "determining the bounds of a legal area by walking around it", meaning physically walking around the region in question. It is primarily used in two contexts:
- Beating the bounds – annually verifying parish boundaries
- Royal forest – "survey of the boundaries of land subjected to Forest Law", done sporadically – see for example New Forest History 1189 - 1681. It may also refer to the boundary region itself.
- Perambulator (disambiguation)
Usage examples of "perambulation".
In order to execute the lesser charter, it was requisite, by new perambulations, to set bounds to the royal forests, and to disafforest all land which former encroachments had comprehended within their limits.
May 4th, I, with Sir Robert Barber, curat, and Robert Talsley, clerk of Manchester parish church, with diverse of the town of divers ages, went in perambulation to the bownds of Manchester parish: began at the Leeless Bench against Prestwich parish, and so had a vew of the thre corne staks, and then down tyll Mr.
Mycroft, picking up the solid and placing it on the floor, where it continued its random perambulations, watched by Pickwick, who thought it might be chasing her, and ran away to hide.
The trilobite completed its slow perambulation of the shoreline rocks and scuttered back into the sea unharmed.
Madame Angelin quivered and closed her eyes as if to escape the spectacle of all the terrifying things that she evoked, the wretchedness, the shame, the crimes that she elbowed during her continual perambulations through that hell of poverty, vice, and hunger.
The glucose-analogue nourished the ventling, enabling it to keep living and occasionally make slow perambulations to other parts of the vent, or even to swim between vents, until the adult phase rooted it to the ground.
He abandoned his attempt at perambulation, made his way through the clutter of chairs and consoles to the viewports overlooking the lake.
It was a long, enjoyable perambulation: Brisbane liked order, purity, simplicity, and the desk shone with a mirror-like perfection.
Fortier owned attachable legs of flesh-tone polymer resins whose interior circuitry was responsive to large-bundle neural stimuli from his stumps, which with metal crutches whose bracelets locked to his wrists allowed a sort of swirling parody of perambulation.
Within the residence he and his fellow freshmen were not allowed normal means of perambulation but were made to walk backwards, even down stairs, at all times.
Paper would be a boon, too, I continued in my mental perambulations, instead of the cumbersome Babylonique slates.
So, during one of his daily perambulations, he chose at random a cluster of Alphans standing at a street-corner, talking and arguing with what seemed to be tremendous enthusiasm.
In his dawn perambulations he chose a different staircase every day, and invariably descended via the second staircase to the left of the one he had ascended, so that it took him six days to complete the full circuit of the rampart.