Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ambulatory

Ambulatory ({not transcribed}) , adjective

[Latin ambulatorius.]

1.
Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.
2.
Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places.
The priesthood... before was very ambulatory, and dispersed into all families. — Jer. Taylor
3.
Pertaining to a walk. [Rare]
The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels. — Sir H. Wotton
4.
(Law) Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.

Ambulatory ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Compare Late Latin ambulatorium.]

(Architecture) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building.