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
Nor was there a whipsaw in the whole country round with which to work, the itinerate sawyer having gone on with his property to another creek.
From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell
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
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
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.
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
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 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
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
Between the driver, who sat on the same plane with his feet on the pole, and the mattress were piled the boxes and baskets containing the necessaries of life required on the itinerating picnic.
From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny
A few years before he had entered upon his new life of itinerating among the ranches, there was a contest between the cowboys to decide who among them was the most skilful rider.
From The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west by John Maclean
Theoretically, itinerating is delightfully rapid; but practically, as every itinerating missionary knows, it is quite slow.
From Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India by Amy Carmichael
From 1866 he laboured for two years itinerating through Servia and Bosnia.
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
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