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
Vagabonds, wandering quacks, and itinerate keepers of animals came to pass Sundays and other non-working days in parties of pleasure.
From Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue
Exhorters were divided into two classes—public, who were allowed to itinerate as preachers and superintend a number of societies; private, who were confined to the charge of one or two societies.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various
The fact is worth noting that from 1849–1857 arguments on the roundness or flatness of the earth did itinerate.
From Myths and Marvels of Astronomy by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor
All the world knows how much he has talked upon this particular topic; how he has itinerated on its behalf; how he has perspired under its business.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various
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
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
As on the way I itinerated, A rural person I obviated, Interrogating time’s transitation, And of the passage demonstration.
From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
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
Here is the itinerating system of Wesley exhibited in its full usefulness.
From Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
He was trusting to the villages through which he was itinerating to sell him milk, butter, eggs and fowls; and it was not known exactly where he was.
From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny
Although these first converts were necessarily missionaries rather than pastors for a time, each preacher received no more than six rupees a month while in his own village, and double that when itinerating.
From Life of William Carey by George Smith
After struggling with many difficulties in obtaining the means of education, he qualified himself for the duties of an itinerating tutor.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
He used to go starring it in the provinces, itinerating as a tuppenny lecturer on Tom Paine.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers by Elbert Hubbard
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