PRONUNCIATION:

(o-BAM-byuh-layt) 

MEANING:

verb intr.: To walk about.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin ob- (to) + ambulare (to walk). Earliest documented use: 1614.

USAGE:

“We have often seen noble statesmen obambulating (as Dr. Johnson would say) the silent engraving-room, obviously rehearsing their orations.”
The Year’s Art; J.S. Virtue & Co.; 1917.