different between perambulation vs perambulator

English

Etymology

perambulate +? -ion; alternative surface analysis is per- +? ambulation.

Noun

perambulation (countable and uncountable, plural perambulations)

1. (rare) A survey, a tour; a walking around.
   • 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 10:

     If any Man for that rea?on has an Inclination to divert him?elf, and Sail with me round the Globe, to ?upervi?e almo?t all the Conditions of Humane Life, without being infected with the Vanities, and Vices that attend such a Whim?ical 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 re?olv’d to pur?ue it through Thick and Thin, to enlarge my Capacity for a Man of Bu?ine?s.

2. (law) An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
3. The district thus inspected.

Quotations

• 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.

• 1929: Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, published by the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society

  The earliest known reference to the stone is that in the perambulation of the parish of Puddletown recorded in the Cartulary of Christchurch Priory.

Synonyms

• (English legal ceremony) bannering

References

• Radin Law Dictionary, Max Radin; Oceana Publications, 1970.

Anagrams

• preambulation

English

Noun

perambulator (plural perambulators)

1. (Britain) A baby carriage; a pram.
   • 1919: P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves

     "That will be all this afternoon," he said to the nurse, who got up with the baby and decanted it into a perambulator which was standing in the fairway.

2. One who perambulates.
3. A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances, consisting of a wheel that rolls over the ground, along with a clockwork apparatus and a dial plate upon which the distance travelled is shown by an index.

Synonyms

• pram

Related terms

• perambulate
• perambulation
• perambulatory

Translations

Further reading

perambulator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Verb

perambul?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of perambul?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of perambul?

References

• perambulator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• perambulator in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016