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itinerate

[ahy-tin-uh-rayt, ih-tin-] / aɪˈtɪn əˌreɪt, ɪˈtɪn- /


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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

"What's happened to you, since you used to itinerate with the Iroquois Extract of Life?"

From The Clarion by William Dodge Stevens

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

Exhorters were divided into two classes—public, who were allowed to itinerate as preachers and superintend a number of societies; private, who were confined to the charge of one or two societies.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" 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

As on the way I itinerated, A rural person I obviated, Interrogating time’s transitation, And of the passage demonstration.

From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

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

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.

Bishop Kavenaugh, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in introducing me to the Louisville Conference in 1858, told them that though a Presbyterian I had "out itinerated the itineracy itself."

From A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with 'Statements' of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia by Hamilton W. (Hamilton Wilcox) Pierson

This religious itinerating was a part of the economic life of those days as well; for the Friends never separated the one from the other.

From Quaker Hill A Sociological Study by Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson

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

I therefore now purpose, the Lord enabling me, after nearly six months interruption, to return to the studies preparatory to my future duties as an itinerating missionary.

From Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 by A. J. (Alexander John) Scott

The money is made there which is spent here; and when our itinerating Legislature comes round, Quebec is very gay, and considerably excited.'

From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe

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




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