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circuit rider
noun
- (formerly) a minister who rode horseback from place to place to preach and perform religious ceremonies.
- someone, as a public official or a nurse, who travels throughout a given territory to provide services.
circuit rider
noun
- (formerly) a minister of religion who preached from place to place along an established circuit
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Word History and Origins
Origin of circuit rider1
An Americanism dating back to 1830–40
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Example Sentences
The good bishop was then a circuit rider on Loudoun Circuit, and Rover carried him on her back around the circuit.
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These notions of young Felix Kendrick were confirmed and enlarged by his marriage to the daughter of a Methodist circuit-rider.
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I know I sat up ever so stiff and tried to look just as if I had been a circuit rider for forty years or so.
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The circuit-rider, whether Methodist or Baptist, found here a field ripe for his harvest.
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William Bayard Hale once accurately described him as "essentially a preacher, a high-class exhorter, a glorified circuit rider."
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