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▪ I. † peˈrambulate, ppl. a. Obs.
In 6 -at.
[ad. L. perambulāt-us, pa. pple. of perambulāre: see next.]
Perambulated; walked through, along, or around; trodden by walking; ascertained by perambulation.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. viii. v. (Percy Soc.) 30 That he walke not..The perambulat waye. 1575–6Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 490 The perambulat landis betuix the landis of Creychtmontgorth and Nethertoun.
▪ II. perambulate, v.|pəˈræmbjʊleɪt|
[f. L. perambulāt-, ppl. stem of perambulāre (f. per through, all over + ambulāre to walk): see -ate3 5.]
1. a. trans. To walk through, over, or about (a place or space); formerly more generally, to travel or pass through, to traverse.
1568[see peramble v. quot. 1508]. 1607J. Davies Summa Totalis C iv, Ere once the Sunne his Round perambulate. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 414 The Sea, is, I cannot say, inhabited, but perambulated by the Samogitians. 1763Johnson 25 June in Boswell, There is a great deal of Spain that has not been perambulated. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 96/1 He was wont to perambulate the garden and the hothouses, lantern in hand.
b. fig. To ‘go round’, surround in position.
1863Hawthorne Our Old Home (1879) 168 In the centre of the grassy quadrangle about which the cloisters perambulate.
c. intr. To walk about; to travel or move about (quot. 1800).
1607Heywood Faire Maide Wks. 1874 II. 48, I am perambulating before a female. 1611Coryat Crudities 29 Perambulating about some of the principall streets of Paris. 1800Colquhoun Comm. Thames iii. 84 The boats perambulating [among the shipping] during the night. 1825Lytton Falkland i. (1827) 38 Persons who always perambulate with a book in their hands.
2. spec.
a. trans. To travel through and inspect (a territory) for purposes of measurement and division; ‘to survey, by passing through’ (J.).
b. To walk statedly or in procession around the boundaries of (a forest, manor, parish, etc.) for the purpose of formally determining or preserving them; to make perambulation of: see perambulation 3.
1612Davies Why Ireland, etc. 249 Commissions..to view and perambulate those Irish territories, and thereupon to divide and limit the same into..counties. 1679–88Secr. Serv. Money Chas. & Jas. (Camden) 179 A comic'on under the great seale, for perambulating the forest of Beare. 1757E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (1767) I. 59 note, A certain annual festival [Ambarvalia], among the Romans, when they perambulated the bounds of their farms, and sacrificed to Ceres. 1799S. Freeman Town Off. 35 The Selectmen appoint persons to perambulate, run and renew the dividing lines between the towns. 1883American VI. 359 Boundary stones, which used to be annually perambulated by the mayor and corporation.
c. intr. To make perambulation; to beat the bounds.
1708S. Sewall Diary 12 Apr., Capt. Culliver and others perambulating for Braintrey and Milton, went with us.
3. a. intr. Of a (light) vehicle: to be in motion, to move about. rare. b. trans. To wheel, convey, or conduct (about) in or as in a perambulator (sense 3); to travel on or traverse in a perambulator.
1856Chambers's Jrnl. 23 Aug. 116/2 The young brother..can hardly reach to the bar, but nevertheless the light carriage perambulates obediently under his guidance. 1865P. H. Gosse Year at Shore iv. 87 The open gate of a villa reveals a little girl ‘perambulating’ a baby. 1902To-Day 30 Apr. 8/1 Babies..are not allowed to ‘perambulate’ the pavement two or three abreast. 1909M. B. Saunders Litany Lane xxii. 295 The Princess Max, having opened the affair, was being perambulated about as usual. 1922J. A. Dunn Man Trap i. 9 Jovial of mouth and eyes despite the handicap that reduced him to being perambulated. 1929P. Gibbs Hidden City xi. 50 Four acres of garden in which some neat nursemaids were perambulating the pink-cheeked babies of the well-to-do.
Hence peˈrambulated ppl. a.; peˈrambulating vbl. n. and ppl. a. (in quot. 1862 (humorous nonce-use) = being wheeled in a perambulator).
1675Ogilby Brit. Pref. 1 Their Perambulated Projections..being much inferior to what might have been done. 1824T. Thompson Hist. Ch. Swine 157 To confirm the custom of perambulating. 1829H. Hawthorn Visit Babylon 18 The perambulating bugs, that made every limb I had, a meal. 1862Calverley Verses & Tr., ‘Hic vir, hic est’ v, Each perambulating infant Had a magic in its squall. 1926W. J. Locke Stories Near & Far 280 Then he walked round his perambulating property [sc. a caravan]. A big-boned brown horse ceased his munching as he approached. 1938P. W. Sergeant Championship Chess i. 26 There is little to be said for perambulating chess matches—except that they bring in more money. 1949E. Coxhead Wind in West vi. 165 We're..all products of what Rory calls the book-learning. We're his perambulating text-books. |