itinerate
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of itinerate
1590–1600; < Late Latin itinerātus, past participle of itinerārī to travel, equivalent to Latin itiner- (stem of iter ) journey ( see iter) + -ātus -ate 1
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After the short, with Hall playing an itinerate gambler, made it into the Sundance Film Festival, Anderson expanded it into his feature debut, 1997’s “Hard Eight,” which catapulted Hall’s career.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2022
Fired from that job when new owners bought the Minneapolis station, the itinerate newsman landed as city editor of the fictional Los Angeles Tribune in the hour-long series that bore his name.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2021
He approved of Boehler's plan to itinerate among the plantations and promised that both his own and Schulius' salaries should be paid him, that he might be supplied for traveling expenses.
From The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740 by Fries, Adelaide L. (Adelaide Lisetta)
"What's happened to you, since you used to itinerate with the Iroquois Extract of Life?"
From The Clarion by Stevens, William Dodge
His strong suit was his itinerate susceptibility; but his main anchorage was his better five-fifths.
From Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope by Cumming, R. D. (Robert Dalziel)
As a flame of fire, Fisher itinerated all over California and Oregon, kindling a blaze of revival in almost every place he touched.
From California Sketches, Second Series by Fitzgerald, O. P.
Bishop Kavenaugh, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in introducing me to the Louisville Conference in 1858, told them that though a Presbyterian I had "out itinerated the itineracy itself."
From A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with 'Statements' of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia by Pierson, Hamilton W. (Hamilton Wilcox)
In 1856 he was appointed to Alsace, and had his station at Strassburg, whence he itinerated to France and the Rhine provinces, and met everywhere acceptance among Jews and Christians.
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
In 1844, they were both ordained in Jerusalem, and Sternchuss accompanied Stern to Bagdad, whence he itinerated to Mesopotamia, visiting Hillah and Ezekiel's tomb twice, he also visited Persia.
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
The South Wales clergy who regularly itinerated were dying out; the majority of those remaining itinerated but irregularly, and were most of them against the change.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various
One can scarcely fancy Romaine itinerating at all; but if he had done so, the bleak moors of Yorkshire or the cottage homes of Bedfordshire would not have been suitable spheres for his labours.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)
Some winters were spent in itinerating in hill districts from which the people did not go to the Bhabhur.
From Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by Kennedy, James
Although the meeting houses were only few and far between, and churches and chapels were extremely rare, the most illiterate of the sects were itinerating, hither and thither, with wonderful success.
From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Roger, Charles
The money is made there which is spent here; and when our itinerating Legislature comes round, Quebec is very gay, and considerably excited.'
From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Walshe, Elizabeth Hely
That they might enjoy these in the greatest abundance, he called forth the most intelligent members of the Church into action, and employed them in itinerating within his extensive circle.
From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Coleman, Thomas
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