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Definition of Perambulates
1. perambulate [v] - See also: perambulate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perambulates
Literary usage of Perambulates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Marguerite D'Angoulême,Queen of Navarre, Duchesse D'Alençon and by Martha Walker Freer (1856)
"... d'Estampes—The capture of Chateau- Thierry and Epernay—The emperor crosses
the river Marne—Alarm of the Parisians—The king perambulates the streets of ..."
2. The Satapatha-brâhmana: According to the Text of the Mâdhyandina School by Julius Eggeling (1897)
"Having (finally) set down the pitcher, he perambulates thrice (the altar); ...
Thrice he perambulates it, for thrice he walks round it (whilst sprinkling): ..."
3. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1892)
"It is one thing to own a wood-lot as he does who perambulates its bounds almost
daily, so as to have worn a path about it, and another to own one as many a ..."
4. Proceedings (1891)
"4d.; of the whole department last year, 30476Z. 10«.; average weekly keep per
horse, 12s. to 13s. Daily each morning the dust-cart perambulates the city, ..."
5. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"The medicine-man perambulates the field singing and sprinkling the medicine on
the ground, making the bell on the medicine-bottle [fig. aa] ring as he goes ..."
6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1881)
"... sheaves of wheat if he perambulates Norfolk in harvest time. The thing signified
is an annual tax levied upon unwary country parsons by the male portion ..."
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