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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

(formerly) a minister of religion who preached from place to place along an established circuit

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

The good bishop was then a circuit rider on Loudoun Circuit, and Rover carried him on her back around the circuit.

These notions of young Felix Kendrick were confirmed and enlarged by his marriage to the daughter of a Methodist circuit-rider.

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.

The circuit-rider, whether Methodist or Baptist, found here a field ripe for his harvest.

William Bayard Hale once accurately described him as "essentially a preacher, a high-class exhorter, a glorified circuit rider."

April 18, 2024petrichor

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