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Itinerant

Ī-tĭn'er-ant, a.

adjective

a. [L. Lat. itinerans, p. pr. of itinerare, to make a journey, from Lat. iter, itineris, a walk, way, journey.] Passing or traveling about a country; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher.

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 from one end of the kingdom to the other. Blackstone.

I-tīn'er-ant, n.

noun

n. One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled.

Glad to turn itinerant, To stroll and teach from town to town. Hudibras.