1636 R. Basset tr. G. A. de Paoli Lives Rom. Emperors 233 Curious walkes and perambulatories befitting so great a Majesties residence.

1843 Knickerbocker July 85 Let..the Temperance-halls and root-beer perambulatories make answer!

1999 Times (Nexis) 5 Apr. (Features section) The Great Court may at last achieve the effect for which Smirke strived—a perambulatory of which to be proud.

1773 Amherst Rec. (1884) 61/2 That the Perambulatry of the Line between Hadley and Amherst Lately run..be accepted.

1623 H. Wotton Let. 5 Nov. in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) II. 282 I am come as far as Colen, whence I send before me..to salute your Grace with a few perambulatory lines.

1659 (title) A perambulatory word to court, camp, city and country.

1801 G. Dyer Poems 147 (title) Perambulatory Musings, from Blenheim House.

1844 E. S. Wortley Ernest Mountjoy ii. i. 54 It is a thousand pities you should still be thus preposterously perpendicular and perambulatory.

1929 Times 30 Mar. 10/4 The conversion of all perambulatory movements into a hop, skip, and jump.

1989 Washington Times (Nexis) 22 Dec. b7 The unshod babies moved more swiftly and more surely because they had greater control over their perambulatory efforts.

1650 Briefe Relation Some Affaires No. 43. 639 They are as well fitted to their Ecclesiastical function, as a perambulatory Romish Priest is for a Mass, by his super-altar.

1767 W. Guthrie Gen. Hist. Scotl. V. 132 They coloured it over to James with the specious pretence of public good, on account of the perambulatory administration of justice.

1780 W. Tooke tr. J. G. Georgi Russia II. 72 A number of free Nogayans, who made their perambulatory courses about the neighbourhood of the Yemba.

1803 Ann. Rev. 1 425 It is probable that a perambulatory population would originate.

1849 Southern Literary Messenger Sept. 585/2 It seems to have been the cue of that institution in modern times, to keep its presidency rather perambulatory.

1905 E. Gosse Sir T. Browne 101 The eccentric & perambulatory Dutch physician Pieter Gruter.

1992 Jrnl. Interdisciplinary Hist. 22 528 The county court, through perambulatory meetings and strategic selection of justices by geographical area, provided residents with convenient access to judicial and administrative services.

1856 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 23 306 We introduced the..perambulatory patent, only to show the risk of dealing in patent rights.

2001 Guardian (Nexis) 17 May 22 Turning the [Silver Cross Pram] company around took slightly longer than the Hazells had imagined. Their perambulatory tribulations made excellent viewing.