perambulation
An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it…An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
Meaning
3 senses(countable, rare, uncountable)A survey, a tour; an instance of walking around.
(countable, uncountable)An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
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.
a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries
(countable, uncountable)The district thus inspected.
Origin
From Middle English perambulacioun, from Anglo-Norman and Latin. By surface analysis, peraFrom Middle English perambulacioun, from Anglo-Norman and Latin. By surface analysis, perambulate + -ation, or, by surface analysis, per- + ambulate + -ion.
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Forms
plural: perambulations| Singular | perambulation |
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Synonyms
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6 related wordsLessons for this word
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