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itinerant, a. and n.|aɪˈtɪnərənt, ɪt-|
[ad. late and med.L. itinerānt-em, pr. pple. of late L. itinerā-rī, med.L. itinerā-re to travel, itinerate.]
A. adj. Journeying; travelling from place to place: not fixed or stationary.
a. Said of the Justices in Eyre, the Justices of Assize and the Forest, their courts, etc.: Travelling on circuit.
[1292Rolls Parlt. 86/1 Vos, & ceteri Justic' Itinerantes ad communia placita. 1293Ibid. 99/1 Tam Justiciarii de utroque Banco, quam Justiciarii itinerantes.] 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 105 Justices in Eire (or Itinerant as wee called them). 1591in Child Marriages 150 John Milner, Bailiff Itinerant of this Countie Palantine of Chester. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) II. 431 Such itinerant judges as go Oxford Circuit. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. v. Wks. (1851) 232 In the Winter and Spring time he usually rode the Circuit as a Judge Itinerant. 1746–7Act 20 Geo. II, c. 43 §29 To hold itinerant courts at such times and places..as they shall judge to be expedient. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. ii. xi, One of the new Itinerant Judges.
b. Journeying, travelling, or pertaining to travel in connexion with some employment or vocation; preaching in a circuit; of or pertaining to the regular Wesleyan ministry.
1661Cowley Advancem. Exp. Philos., College 29 That the four Professors Itinerant be assigned to the four parts of the World, Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, there to reside three years at least. 1673[R. Leigh] Transp. Reh. 102 Itinerant gospellers that travel up and down. 1710Palmer Proverbs 231 Old shoes and hats, and a few other things that our itinerant merchants deal in. 1755Connoisseur No. 86 ⁋3, I confess myself highly obliged to the itinerant missionaries of Whitefield, Wesley, and Zinzendorf. 1792J. Belknap Hist. New Hampsh. III. 325 It has been usual for the clergymen of the elder towns to make itinerant excursions, of several weeks, to preach and baptize. 1829Minutes Wesleyan Confer. VI. 447 Mr. Wesley appointed him to a Circuit as an Itinerant Preacher: in which office he continued. 1840Ibid. IX. 10 After having been usefully employed as a Class-Leader and Local Preacher for several years [he] was taken into the itinerant work at the Conference in 1803. 1834Medwin Angler in Wales I. 14 Some hanks of gut lately bought from an itinerant Italian. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars ii. 85 The Friars..acting the part of itinerant preachers.
c. fig.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 2 If my thoughts have wandred, I must intreat the wel-bred Reader..to afforde mee his helpe to call home my Itenerant Notions. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. vii. ix. 315 The insupportable Wickedness of the Christians..may make this Kingdome of Christ very itinerant and to pass from one Nation to another People. 1850Blackie æschylus I. Pref. 22 The word, transmitted from age to age, and itinerant from East to West, remains.
d. transf. Movable from place to place.
1690Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 12 Sir Christopher Wren has compleated the itinerant house for his majestie to carry into Ireland. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 647 It was equally clear to all parties that the government should not be itinerant.
B. n. One who itinerates or travels from place to place, esp. in the pursuit of a trade or calling; a travelling preacher, strolling player, etc.
1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. ii. 112 S. Luke..had also been a plain itinerant in Preaching the Gospel. 1678Butler Hud. iii. ii. 92 Glad to turn itinerant, To stroll and teach from town to town. 1753A. Murphy Gray's-Inn Jrnl. No. 43 ⁋7 Search was made after this mercantile Itinerant. 1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Diss. i. 34 They [Scandinavian Scalds] were itinerants by their institution and made voyages. 1822J. Flint Lett. Amer. 268 In the evening two itinerants, a presbyterian preacher and his wife, arrived with an introduction from an acquaintance. 1833H. Martineau Charmed Sea iv. 59 They were Siberian merchants,—that is, itinerants.
Hence iˈtinerantly adv.
1855in Hyde Clarke. 1856in Webster; and in mod. Dicts. |