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Webster 1913 Edition
Perambulate
Per-am′bu-late
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Perambulated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Perambulating
.] [L.
perambulatus
, p. p. of perambulare
to perambulate; per
through + ambulare
to walk. See Per-
, and Amble
.] To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.
Per-am′bu-late
,Verb.
I.
To walk about; to ramble; to stroll;
as, he
. perambulated
in the parkWebster 1828 Edition
Perambulate
PERAM'BULATE
,Verb.
T.
To walk through or over; properly and technically, to pass through or over for the purpose of surveying or examining something; to visit as overseers; as, to perambulate a parish. So in New England, the laws require the select men of towns to appoint suitable persons annually to perambulate the borders or bounds of the township, and renew the boundaries, or see that the old ones are in a good state.
Definition 2024
perambulate
perambulate
English
Verb
perambulate (third-person singular simple present perambulates, present participle perambulating, simple past and past participle perambulated)
Translations
roam, stroll
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