Ambulatory vs Peripatetic - What's the difference?
ambulatory | peripatetic |
Of, relating to, or adapted to walking
* Sir H. Wotton
(comparable, medicine) Able to walk about and not bedridden.
(medicine) Performed on or involving an ambulatory patient or an outpatient.
Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.
* Jeremy Taylor
(legal) Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.
The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.
Tending to walk about.
Constantly travelling; itinerant; nomadic.
(usually, capitalized) Having to do with Aristotle, his philosophy, or the school of thought which he founded.
* Howell
One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.
(usually, capitalized) One who accepts the philosophy of Aristotle or his school; an Aristotelian.
* 1961 , Albert Upton, Design for Thinking: A First Book in Semantics , 11:
As adjectives the difference between ambulatory and peripatetic
is that ambulatory is of, relating to, or adapted to walking while peripatetic is of or pertaining to the philosophy or methods of aristotle, or to his followers.As nouns the difference between ambulatory and peripatetic
is that ambulatory is the round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals while peripatetic is a disciple of aristotle; an aristotelian.ambulatory
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Adjective
(en adjective)- ambulatory exercise
- The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels.
- an ambulatory patient
- an ambulatory electrocardiogram
- ambulatory medical care
- an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places
- The priesthood before was very ambulatory , and dispersed into all families.
- The dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.
Noun
(ambulatories)peripatetic
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Alternative forms
* peripatetick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The true peripatetic school.
Noun
(en noun)- He who would think clearly must think like a peripatetic even if he is unwilling to walk like one.