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
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 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
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
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.
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
Long before this time the Rev. R. Lechler, of the Basel Missionary Society, had widely itinerated in the neighbourhood of Swatow and the surrounding regions.
From A Retrospect by James Hudson Taylor
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
I therefore now purpose, the Lord enabling me, after nearly six months interruption, to return to the studies preparatory to my future duties as an itinerating missionary.
From Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 by A. J. (Alexander John) Scott
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
In addition to their itinerating labours, they gradually filled the pulpits thus left vacant in the chapels.
From Excellent Women by Various
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
Consequently, when, in company with Mr. Muirson, Colonel Heathcote began itinerating through southwestern Connecticut, ministers and magistrates frequently opposed and threatened them.
From The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut by Maria Louise Greene
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