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obambulare

obambulare [CL] 1 to walk (about or back and forth). inpavidas lupus inter oves / tristis obambulat [gl.: lxsbþ,i. e. lusaþ] GlP 192; juxta regis castra sensim ~ans W. Malm. GR III 233; ~o, ‥ i. circumambulare Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 33; avironer, ~are Gl. AN Ox. f. 153r.. 2 to walk by or along (usu. w. ref. to accompanying a person): a (w. acc.); b (w. dat.). a quod clientum turba, nitore vestium superbiens, illius latus ~aret W. Malm. GP III 100 p. 220.  b genitori in omnibus obsequelam gerens, ejus se oculis in bello ostentans, ejus lateri in pace ~ans W. Malm. GR IV 305; cornibus erectis pecora lateribus militum ~antia Id. GR IV 371; qui de prefato oppido veniebat et abbatis vestigia secutus indesinenter, quasi collateralis illi ~abat J. Furness Walth. 77. 3 to walk over, traverse. canus adoptatus Perironis obambulat ortus J. Cornw. Merl. 63.

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