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Perambulation vs Preambulation - What's the difference?

perambulation | preambulation |

As nouns the difference between perambulation and preambulation

is that perambulation is a survey, a tour; a walking around while preambulation is a walking or going before; precedence.

perambulation

English

(wikipedia perambulation)

Noun

(s)
  • (rare) A survey, a tour; a walking around.
  • (legal) An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.

    • Quotations

    *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 . *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 recorded in the Cartulary of Christchurch Priory .

    Synonyms

    * (English legal ceremony ) bannering

    References

    *Radin Law Dictionary , Max Radin; Oceana Publications, 1970.

    preambulation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A walking or going before; precedence.
  • (obsolete) A preamble.
    • (Chaucer)
    (Webster 1913)