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▪ I. itinerate, v.|aɪˈtɪnəreɪt, ɪt-|
[f. late L. itinerāt-, ppl. stem of itinerārī to travel, f. iter, itiner- a journey, way, road.]
1. intr. To journey or travel from place to place.
1600–9Rowlands Knave of Clubs 37 As on the way I Itinerated, A Rurall person I Obuiated. 1676Marvell Mr. Smirke 4 They itinerated like Excise-spyes from one house to another. 1843Blackw. Mag. LIV. 635 There are three separate modes of itinerating through the island. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 83 He who fancies that he can write a tragedy does not go about itinerating in the neighbouring states.
b. To travel from place to place preaching; spec. of a Methodist minister, To preach to the various congregations within the circuit to which he is appointed, and to go periodically from circuit to circuit as appointed, (usually) every three years: cf. itinerancy 2.
1775E. Wheelock in Mem. (1811) 328, I have sent Mr. Dean to itinerate as a missionary this spring, among their tribes. 1824Southey Bk. of Ch. (1841) 47 The clergy resided with the Bishop, and itinerated through the diocese. 1831Fraser's Mag. III. 64 Bunyan received a roving commission..to itinerate in the villages round about. 1878Lecky Eng. in 18th C. (1883) II. 603 He preached in the open air, itinerated, denounced fairs and wakes.
2. trans. To journey through, traverse. rare.
1830Croly Geo. IV, 493 The home secretary itinerated the country. 1839Britannia 25 May in Spirit Metropol. Conserv. Press (1840) I. 433 They itinerate the empire, inflaming the popular passions,..and deluding the popular weakness. 1863G. F. Townsend Leominster 257 It was..the custom for..Collectors to itinerate the country, and to collect the sums resulting from these Briefs.
Hence iˈtinerating vbl. n., travelling, itineration. iˈtinerating ppl. a., that journeys from place to place; itinerant.
1611Coryat Crudities To Rdr., Thy benevolent itinerating friend T. C. the Odcombian Legge-stretcher. 1770Bp. Forbes Jrnls. (1886) 289 One of the seasons of his itinerating into Lochaber. 1845J. Saunders Cab. Pict. Eng. Life, Chaucer 168 The appointment of itinerating judges, the justices in Eyre, as they were afterwards called. 1860C. Durfee Hist. Williams Coll. 359 Mr. Eaton..had now resolved to become an itinerating lecturer.
▪ II. † iˈtinerate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. late L. itinerāt-us, pa. pple. of itinerārī: see prec.]
= itinerant a.
a1628J. Doddridge Eng. Lawyer (1631) 33 As well the Judges itinerate through the counties, as those that were sedentarie in the King's High Courts of Justice. 1755J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) I. 275 Mr. Cook..suggested the change was made by that itinerate trader. |