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
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 R. D. (Robert Dalziel) Cumming
In 1789 he quitted the seafaring life, and commenced to itinerate for subscribers to enable him to publish his poems.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
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 Adelaide L. (Adelaide Lisetta) Fries
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 O. P. Fitzgerald
For many years she itinerated as a preacher, and at the great age of one hundred and three her health is still vigorous.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various
For instance, it is the very objection urged by Celsus, that Christians were but parallel to the credulous victims of jugglers or of devotees, who itinerated through the pagan population.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
The Penningtons were successively of Exeter, Lezant, and Stoke-Climsland, and itinerated as occasion required.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers
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 Hamilton W. (Hamilton Wilcox) Pierson
Thus, by and by, the whole concern, which actually for a time had nearly looked ideal, grew as vulgar in its attributes as any mere itinerating theatre.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wesley's opinion however remained unaltered, that it would have been better in every way for Fletcher to have joined him in itinerating.
From Fletcher of Madeley by Frederic W. Macdonald
During the summer of 1874 James Gilmour continued his itinerating work among the nomads of the Plain.
From James Gilmour of Mongolia His diaries, letters, and reports by James Gilmour
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 Thomas Coleman
He was also in the habit of itinerating during the early part of his Evangelical ministry.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey
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