单词 | itinerant |
释义 | itinerantadj.n. 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. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [adjective] > itinerant itinerant1576 circuiting1632 circuiteering1742 1292 Rolls Parl. 86/1 Vos, & ceteri Justic' Itinerantes ad communia placita. 1293 Rolls Parl. 99/1 Tam Justiciarii de utroque Banco, quam Justiciarii itinerantes.] 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 94 Iustices in Eire, (or Itinerant as wee called them). 1591 in F. J. Furnivall Child-marriages, Divorces, & Ratifications Diocese Chester (1897) 150 John Milner, Bailiff Itinerant of this Countie Palantine of Chester. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 49 Such Itinerant Judges as go Oxford Circuit. 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. v. 235 In the Winter and Spring time he usually rode the Circuit as a Judge Itinerant. 1746–7 Act 20 Geo. II c. 43 §29 To hold itinerant courts at such times and places..as they shall judge to be expedient. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. xi. 129 One of the new Itinerant Judges. b. Journeying, travelling, or pertaining to travel in connection with some employment or vocation; preaching in a circuit; of or pertaining to the regular Wesleyan ministry. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > [adjective] > itinerant itinerant1661 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > in connection with employment deambulatory1607 peripatetic1607 peripatetical1633 itinerant1661 ambulating1716 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [adjective] > serving > itinerant itinerant1661 1661 A. Cowley Proposition Advancem. Exper. Philos. 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 Transproser Rehears'd 102 Itinerant gospellers that travel up and down. 1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 231 Old shoes and hats, and a few other things that our itinerant merchants deal in. 1755 Connoisseur No. 86. ⁋3 I confess myself highly obliged to the itinerant missionaries of Whitefield, Wesley, and Zinzendorf. 1792 J. 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. 1829 Minutes Wesleyan Confer. VI. 447 Mr. Wesley appointed him to a Circuit as an Itinerant Preacher: in which office he continued. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 14 Some hanks of gut lately bought from an itinerant Italian. 1840 Minutes Wesleyan Confer. 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. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars ii. 85 The Friars..acting the part of itinerant preachers. c. figurative. ΚΠ 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 2 If my thoughts haue wandred, I must intreat the wel-bred Reader..to afford mee his helpe to call home my Itenerant Notions. 1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness 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. 1850 J. S. Blackie in tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas I. p. xxii The word, transmitted from age to age, and itinerant from East to West, remains. d. transferred. Movable from place to place. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [adjective] > transferred > able to be movablea1325 moblec1390 running1459 remevablec1460 removablec1470 cursory1606 transferable1646 transplantable1656 transferrable1660 itinerant1690 1690 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 12 Sir Christopher Wren has compleated the itinerant house for his majestie to carry into Ireland. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) 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. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > one who piepowderc1436 runabout1549 peripatician1598 peripateticc1600 peregrinator1610 itinerant1641 itinerary1709 transient1877 cardower1911 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 112 S. Luke..had also been a plain itinerant in Preaching the Gospel. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 98 Glad to turn Itinerant, To strowl and teach from Town to Town. 1753 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 43. ⁋7 Search was made after this mercantile Itinerant. 1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Diss. i. sig. ev They [sc. Scandinavian Scalds] were itinerants by their institution, and made voyages. 1822 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 268 In the evening two itinerants, a presbyterian preacher and his wife, arrived with an introduction from an acquaintance. 1833 H. Martineau Charmed Sea iv. 59 They were Siberian merchants,—that is, itinerants. Derivatives iˈtinerantly adv. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adverb] itinerallya1706 itinerantly1855 1855 in H. Clarke 1856 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and in mod. Dicts. 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