Vocabulary Word
Word: itinerant
Definition: wandering; traveling from place to place (to perform work); Ex. itinerant preacher
Definition: wandering; traveling from place to place (to perform work); Ex. itinerant preacher
Sentences Containing 'itinerant'
He had been, I imagine, an itinerant doctor, for there was no town in England, or country in Europe, of which he could not give a very particular account.
Whoever reads the instructions (They are to be found in Tyrol's History of England) which were given to the judges of the circuit in the time of Henry II will see clearly that those judges were a sort of itinerant factors, sent round the country for the purpose of levying certain branches of the king's revenue.
But what a Tully or a Demosthenes could scarcely effect over a Roman or Athenian audience, every _Capuchin_, every itinerant or stationary teacher can perform over the generality of mankind, and in a higher degree, by touching such gross and vulgar passions.
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