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Movable; revocable; subject to change; capable of alteration. An ambulatory court was the former name of the Court of King's Bench in England. It would convene wherever the king who presided over it could be found, moving its location as the king moved. An ambulatory disposition is a judgment, decree, or sentence that is subject to change, amendment, or revocation. A will is considered ambulatory because as long as the person who made it lives, it can always be changed or revoked. ambulatory adjective able to be altered, alterative, amendable, amendatory, changeable, emendable, modifiable, movable, mutable, not fixed, permutable, renunciatory, repudiative, repudiatory, reversible, revisional, revisory, revocable, revocatory, subject to change, variable Associated concepts: ambulatory deed, ambulatory patient, ambulatory will Foreign phrases: Ambulatoria est voluntas defuncti usque ad vitae supremum exitum.The will of a deceased person is ambulatory until the latest moment of life. See also: itinerant, moving How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The nave and transepts are each 16 m wide and are
bordered by two 4 m wide ambulatories that open into the main building
by a series of arches. The path to the open altar area, well below the floor levels
of the side ambulatories, leads downward, so that pews around the altar
are higher, subverting the convention of an elevated chancel segregated
from the laity. Linear arrangements of reticently designed cases
underscore spatial linearity, as do the skylit ambulatories down both
sides of the winter garden, from which you can stare through glass at
white coated technicians, your scrutiny informed by display cases
beneath the windows. |
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