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
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
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 to 1857, arguments on the roundness or flatness of the earth did itinerate.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith
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.
Both were energetic country parsons, and both itinerated; but Berridge went over a wider field than Grimshaw.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey
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
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
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
This religious itinerating was a part of the economic life of those days as well; for the Friends never separated the one from the other.
From Quaker Hill A Sociological Study by Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson
The companies of itinerating players who might chance to visit the town from time to time, were compelled to hire a hall or a booth for their performances.
From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
William had long, active, itinerating legs in those days, a slim, graceful body, a countenance like that of Sir Walter Raleigh and eyes that must have been like Saint John's.
From A Circuit Rider's Wife by Corra Harris
Gaule proved himself to be an overmatch for the itinerating inquisitor, and so effectually attacked, battled with, and exposed him, as to render him quite harmless in future.
From Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster by Thomas Potts
He lived the life of an itinerating Teacher, declaring to any who cared to listen the things concerning the Kingdom of GOD.
From Religious Reality by A. E. J. (Alfred Edward John) Rawlinson
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