a. [ad. L. ambulantem pr. pple. of ambulā-re to walk about. Also in mod.Fr. ambulant.]
1. Walking, moving about.
1654. Gayton, Fest. Notes, iv. 8 (L.). A knight dormant, ambulant, combatant.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. IV. vi. 267. An ambulant ‘Revolutionary Army’ … shall perambulate the country at large.
2. Moving, shifting, unfixed. rare.
1810. Coleridge, Friend, I. xi. (1867), 44. Discriminating offence from merit by such dim and ambulant boundaries.
