Etymology From Late Latin itinerantem, present active participle of itineror (“travel”), from itiner-. By surface analysis, Latin itiner- + -ant.
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Habitually travelling from place to place.
an itinerant preacher or peddler
The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made.1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
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most children in trouble were placed in detention homes, in institutions for the retarded, on wards with psychotic adults, or were left at home to fester there, occasionally seen by an itinerant teacher.1971, Richard Austin King, Clifford Thomas Morgan, Readings for an Introduction to Psychology:
The Greek term translated as “apostle” derives from the concept of being sent, thus underlining the missionary and more itinerant nature of the ministry.2010, Craig Ott, Gene Wilson, Global Church Planting: