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单词 obambulate
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obambulatev.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin obambulāt-, obambulāre.
Etymology: < classical Latin obambulāt-, past participial stem (compare -ate suffix3) of obambulāre to walk up to, to traverse, in post-classical Latin also to walk about or back and forth (from 11th cent. in British sources; < ob- ob- prefix + ambulāre ambulate v.), probably after obambulation n. N.E.D. (1902) gives the pronunciation as (ǫbæ·mbiŭleit) /ɒˈbæmbjʊleɪt/.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To walk about; to wander here and there.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander
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1614–15 J. Boys Wks. (1622) 597 Soules departed..doe not obambulate and wander vp and downe, but remaine in places of happinesse or vnhappinesse.
1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo: Contemplatio Mortis (rev. ed.) 94 In the interim the Soule doth not wander and obambulate.
1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. 231 We..must still obambulate, Sequacious of the Court.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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