disambulatory

plural disambulatories

1. architectureAn extension of the ambulatory that allows one to walk along the sides of a cathedral.

   Another bomb came through the disambulatory roof and vaulting and made a direct hit on one of the four stone pillars carrying the tower crossing and the iron spire

   1961, Stanley Richard Baron, The Road to Barcelona, and the Costa Brava

comparative more disambulatory · superlative most disambulatory

1. Unable to walk with ease.

   I wasn't even close to her, being knocked out and disambulatory.

   2018, Les Edgerton, Monday's Meal

   2 more examples

   It affected its victims like an airborne LSD — and certainly left them “disambulatory.”

   1989, Richard Engling, Body Mortgage, page 26

   It's all perambulatory to disambulatory because nobody tells us that with increasing indolence our body bulk balloons.

   2019, Ken West, My Pagan Ancestor Zuri: A Parallel Journey