perambulation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A survey, a tour; an instance of walking around. countable,rare,uncountable
    — If any Man for that reaſon has an Inclination to divert himſelf, and Sail with me round the Globe, to ſuperviſe almoſt all the Conditions of Humane Life, without being infected with the Vanities, and Vices that attend such a Whimſical Perambulation; let him follow me, who am going to Relate it in a Stile, and Language, proper to the Variety of the Subject: For as the Caprichio came Naturally into my Pericranium, I am reſolv’d to purſue it through Thick and Thin, to enlarge my Capacity for a Man of Buſineſs.
  2. An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries. countable,uncountable
    — 1902, Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, published by the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society Another forest not named in the perambulation is that of Horwich.
  3. The district thus inspected. countable,uncountable

词形变化

perambulations plural

词汇关系

相关词
ambulation ambulator ambulatory perambulator perambulatory

词源

From Middle English perambulacioun, from Anglo-Norman and Latin. By surface analysis, perambulate + -ation, or, by surface analysis, per- + ambulate + -ion.
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