: an act of walking about : a tour on foot : stroll
his perambulation to the river for his midday bath is a progress in the grand manner—Alan Moorehead
b
: an official act or ceremony of walking around an area (as a town, parish, forest) to assert and record its boundaries and thereby maintain the rights of possession
c
: an act of traveling through and inspecting an area
spent his whole reign … in a perambulation or survey of the Roman Empire—Francis Bacon
2
: a written account of a perambulation
3
: the boundary or extent of an area as determined by walking its perimeter
enlarged the perambulations of what they had—Edmund Hickeringill
Middle English perambulacion, from Medieval Latin perambulation-, perambulatio, from Latin perambulatus (past participle of perambulare) + -ion-, -io -ion
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