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
"What's happened to you, since you used to itinerate with the Iroquois Extract of Life?"
From The Clarion by William Dodge Stevens
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
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
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
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
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
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
Under the itinerating system, the United States are divided into conferences, districts, and circuits.
From Off-Hand Sketches A Little Dashed with Humor by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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
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
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
The same paper tells of another “South American” fraud, 60,000 bottles of which were said to be sold in Detroit in a few weeks, by an itinerating vendor.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen
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