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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
... [Co] Covered portico surrounding the inner shrine of a...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.)
... A covered place in which to walk, such as a cloister . It is more specifically used to describe the aisle , used for processions, enclosing a sanctuary and joining two chancel-aisles behind the high altar—as in an ambulatory...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
...ambulatory The ‘walking-space’ which arises when an apsidal sanctuary is surrounded by continuous aisles . The ambulatory is bounded on one side by the arches of the sanctuary, and on the other may give access to a series of...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
... . The ‘walking-space’ created when an apsidal sanctuary in certain churches of the Norman period is surrounded by continuous aisles...
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A Dictionary of Nursing (8 ed.)
... [am-bew- layt -er-i] adj. relating to walking. a. treatment treatment that enables or encourages a patient to remain on his or her...
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The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
... A walkway surrounding the *apse or *chancel end of a church, usually a continuation of the aisles, serving to facilitate circulation behind the sanctuary. Ambulatories existed already in the early Christian period (for example, S. Sebastiano , *Rome ). From the Romanesque period onwards they could be extended by means of radiating *chapels (for example, Cluny III , late 11th century). See also art and architecture: romanesque . Sible de Blaauw J. Herschman , ‘The Norman Ambulatory of Le Mans Cathedral and the chevet of the Cathedral of...
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William Loerke and Katherine M. Kiefer
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
... , a passage around a major space. Prokopios of Caesarea ( Buildings 1.1.58) uses the term aule (aisle?, lit. “courtyard”) for the colonnaded spaces around the naos (nave) of Hagia Sophia , Constantinople. Ambulatories facilitate movement in a church without disturbing central and sacred areas; they can give independent access to the pastophoria or lead to a contiguous church ( Lips monastery , Constantinople; Hosios Loukas ). The ambulatories also served as spaces for ecclesiastical gatherings and for burials. The “ambulatory church” type...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Art and Architecture (2 ed.)
... (Lat. ambulare , to walk) The passageway behind the choir of a medieval church, surrounding the area of the high altar, and designed usually as an extension from the aisles. It was of particular use in pilgrimage churches, since it gave easy access to shrines and to subsidiary chapels without disturbing services in the choir itself ( see altarpiece ). An ambulatory with three, five, or occasionally seven (though this is rare) chapels projecting from it, so as to increase the number of side chapels and therefore the number of altars, was common...
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Australian Law Dictionary (3 ed.)
...ambulatory ( adj ) (Latin ambulatorius , of or pertaining to a walker; moveable) Capable of ‘moving on’ – being changed to account for later developments. In statutory interpretation courts perform an ambulatory role when they construe provisions dynamically, in a way that amends or expands the original intention, if the text allows it (e.g. to cover new technology or social practices). See R v Gee (2003) 212 CLR 230. Dynamic or ambulatory interpretation is now orthodox but was once considered illegitimate (e.g. by austin , who called it ‘spurious...
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The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
...to the development of the ambulatory was the introduction of the double ambulatory. It occurs at Saint-Denis Abbey ( c . 1140), where the shallow radiating chapels emerge without subdivision from the outer ambulatory, each chapel and aisle bay covered by a single vault, and at the contemporary church of St Martin-des-Champs, Paris, where the plan is repeated apart from a large axial chapel in the form of a trefoil. Notre-Dame ( 1163–1250 ), Paris, was built with a double ambulatory. The awkwardly shaped ambulatory bays were vaulted in a particularly...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)
... 1. Any place in which to process or promenade, whether partially or totally covered or uncovered, e.g. ambulatio or cloister . 2. Aisle linking the chancel -aisles behind the high-altar in a large church: it can be canted, semicircular, or straight on plan, with chapels to the east and the sanctuary to the west....
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A Dictionary of Law (10 ed.)
... adj . ( of a will ) Taking effect not from when it was made but from the death of the testator. Thus descriptions of property bequeathed or of beneficiaries are taken to refer to property or persons existing at that time. The will remains revocable until...
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Anthony Quiney
The Oxford Companion to Architecture
... A walkway, usually in the form of an aisle , around a sanctuary. It originated in France as a processional passage around a shrine accommodated within a crypt, e.g. at Chartres Cathedral (after 858). It typically leads around an apse, providing access to chapels opening off it. This pattern was established at St Philibert, Tournus, France ( c .979–1019 ), and adopted for the churches of the pilgrimage road, starting with St Martin, Tours (after 997 ), and including Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain). Widely adopted for Romanesque churches,...
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A Dictionary of Public Health (2 ed.)
...ambulatory care Literally, medical care of persons who are able to walk in and out of a clinic. The care may be primary, episodic, or part of continuing care for an existing condition. Typically, physicians providing ambulatory care are working under time pressure, which is unfortunate if it leaves no time for initiatives aimed at opportunistic early disease detection. ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)
... church 1. Church with an ambulatory between the sanctuary and chapels to the east. 2. Early-Christian or Byzantine church with a domed area bounded on at least three sides by aisles and galleries , so forming a cross on plan, also known as a cross-domed church ....
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
... XVII. — L. ambulātōrius (in medL. ambulātōrium as sb. ), f. pp. stem of ambulāre walk; see -ORY 1 , -ORY 2...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • beery , bleary, cheery, dearie, dreary, Dun Laoghaire, eerie, eyrie ( US aerie), Kashmiri, leery, peri, praemunire, query, smeary, teary, theory, weary • Deirdre • incendiary • intermediary • subsidiary • auxiliary , ciliary, domiciliary • apiary • topiary • farriery • furriery • justiciary • bestiary , vestiary • breviary • aviary • hosiery • diary , enquiry, expiry, fiery, friary, inquiry, miry, priory, spiry, wiry • podiatry , psychiatry • dowry , floury, flowery, loury, showery, towery • brewery • jewellery ( US jewelry) • ...
