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perambulation|pəˌræmbjʊˈleɪʃən|
[a. AF. perambulation, med.L. perambulātio (both in early use in England in sense 3), n. of action from perambulāre: see perambulate v. and -ation. Cf. It. perambulazione (Florio).]
1. The action of walking through; a walk, a journey on foot; formerly more generally, the action of travelling through or about; a tour.
c1485Digby Myst. (1882) ii. 67, I shall..make perambulacion, Thorow oute damaske. 1579–80North Plutarch (1895) II. 136 Then he sent out skowtes..to viewe the way of their perambulation. 1632Lithgow Trav. viii. 342 Whether discontent or curiosity droue me to this second perambulation. 1788Cumberland Observer No. 96 IV. 25 The fatigue of so ill-timed a perambulation disabled me from expressing that degree of admiration, which seemed to be expected. 1829Lytton Devereux ii. xi, I..venture to request you to seek some other spot for your nocturnal perambulations. 1877‘H. A. Page’ De Quincey II. xvi. 29 In the course of his daily perambulations at Lasswade.
b. Const. of (the place).
1642Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 43 In the perambulation of Italy young Travellers must be cautious..to avoyd one kind of Furbery or cheat. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Milton Wks. II. 91 He seems to have intended a very quick perambulation of the country [Italy]. 1861Lewin Jerusalem 110 In their perambulation of the walls both started in opposite directions.
2. The action of travelling through and inspecting a territory or region; a survey.
b. transf. A written account of a survey or tour of inspection.
1576Lambarde (title) A Perambulation of Kent: Conteyning the Description, Hystorie, and Customes of that Shyre. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. vii. §6 Adrian spent his whole reign..in a perambulation or survey of the Roman empire. 1657Wood Life (O.H.S.) I. 215 Apr. 30...he began his perambulation of Oxfordshire: and the monuments in Wolvercot church were the first that he survey'd and transcrib'd. 1894Lancet 3 Nov. 1069 The work will include a ‘Perambulation’, such as is found in the classic by Stowe and Strype.
3. The action or ceremony of walking officially round a territory (as a forest, manor, parish, or holding) for the purpose of asserting and recording its boundaries, so as to preserve the rights of possession, etc.; beating the bounds.
[c1250Bracton iv. ix. (Rolls) III. 70 Fiat inde perambulatio et sic terminetur negotium.] 1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 12 Discrete persons..to make parambulacions & to appoint..wher the boundes..shal extend. 1563Homilies ii. Rogation Week iv. (title), An Exhortation to be spoken to suche Paryshes where they vse theyr Perambulation in Rogation weke. 1590Reg. Privy Council Scot. IV. 515 Ane court of perambulatioun haldin mair nor ane hundreth yeiris syne. 1654Boston Rec. (1877) II. 119 Mr. James Oliver and Robtt Turner are appoynted to run the line betwixt Cambridge and Rocksbury, and the towne of Boston in perambulatyon. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Perambulation of the Forest, is the Surveying or Walking about the Forest, or the Limits of it, by Justices, or other Officers..to set down the Metes and Bounds thereof. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. II. xiv. 149 The perambulations necessary for carrying out the forest reforms were ordered.
b. transf. A record of a perambulation.
[1373Rolls of Parlt. II. 320/2 Qe les Chartre, Franchises, & Perambulation dont ceste Bille fait mention soient ratifiez.] 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 497 King Henry the Second..disforested it (as wee finde in an old Perambulation).
4. The boundary traced, or the space enclosed, by perambulating; circuit, circumference, bounds; district, precinct, extent. lit. and fig.
1601Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 46 In that perambulation is contained the greater part of Hungarie. 1678T. Jones Heart & Right Sov. 116 The one lying within the perambulation and jurisdiction of Divine soveraignty, the other of humane. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. iv. (1721) 215 They were never quiet till they..enlarged the Perambulations of what they had. 1860Forster Gr. Remonstr. 226 Extending the boundaries of the forests in Essex, and annihilating the ancient perambulations. 1892Daily News 25 Jan. 5/4 Nominally the Forest has a perambulation of ninety-three thousand acres.
†5. fig. Comprehensive relation or description; also, circumlocution, ‘beating about the bush’. Obs.
1509Hawes Joyf. Medit. viii, What sholde I shewe by perambulacyon All this grete tryumphe. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. To King §15, I will now attempt to make a generall and faithfull perambulation of learning. a1652Brome Mad Couple i. Wks. 1873 I. 16 Leave these perambulations; to the point. [Cf. preambulation.]
6. attrib.
1670in Daily Chron. 12 May (1904) 4/7 Spent on the perambulation dinner, {pstlg}3 10s. 1886Willis & Clark Cambridge I. Introd. 12 A sort of boulevard, or perambulation-road (circuitus). |