different between perambulation vs preambulation

English

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

perambulation (countable and uncountable, plural perambulations)

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

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.

pre- +? ambulation

preambulation (plural preambulations)

(obsolete) A walking or going before; precedence.
(obsolete) A preamble.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

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