Perambulation

Quick meaning: Perambulation is a noun meaning (law) An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. The district thus inspected.
2. (rare) A survey, a tour; an instance of walking around.

Example Sentences

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.

It was sung from the top of the oldest house in the burgh every June at the Common riding, which served both for a perambulation of the bounds of the common pastures or Haughs and to commemorate the young men of Harwick[.]

All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely perambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; […]

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.

Word Forms

• perambulations

Synonyms for perambulation

Depending on context, synonyms include bannering, saunter, ramble, stroll, promenade, amble.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ramble, stroll, amble, saunter, promenade, peregrination.

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