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itinerancy|aɪˈtɪnərənsɪ, ɪt-|
[f. next: see -ancy.]
1. The state or condition of being itinerant; the action of itinerating or travelling about, esp. for a specific purpose, as preaching or public speaking; a journey from place to place.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) IV. 197 Has he a fixed abode, or is he in a state of itinerancy? 1825E. Taylor Minnesingers 198 When we contemplate the great extent of this itinerancy, we need not be surprised that the poetry and romance of these countries were so widely diffused. 1838Blackw. Mag. XLIV. 801 We recommend Lord Headfort to Mr. O'Connell as his attendant..on his next sacred itinerancy through Ireland. 1878Gladstone Prim. Homer i. 9 We thus hear of the itinerancy of a stationary bard.
b. A body of itinerants.
1836Blackw. Mag. XL. 458 The itinerancy of rebellion is even now haranguing throughout the land.
2. Itinerant preaching; spec. the system in practice in various Methodist churches, esp. the Wesleyan, according to which the regular ministers or ‘itinerant preachers’ are appointed not to a single congregation, but to a group of these called a ‘circuit’, to ‘itinerate’ among the congregations within its limits, and are periodically (usually every three or five years) removed to another circuit.
1789Wesley Wks. (1872) XIII. 278 If the trustees of houses are to displace Preachers, their itinerancy is at an end. 1791Hampson Mem. Wesley III. 72 A distinguishing feature in this œconomy is itinerancy. 1811Syd. Smith Wks. (1867) I. 201 The interchange or itinerancy of preachers. 1892Daily News 24 May 6/6 The Rev. Hugh Price Hughes moved the following resolution: That this Council adheres strongly to the principle of the Itinerancy,..and has no wish to disturb the three years' system wherever it is working well.
b. Itinerant ministry; spec. ministry in the Methodist churches.
1809Minutes Wesleyan Confer. III. Obit., He fell asleep in Jesus Jan. 16 1809 in the seventh year of his Itinerancy..and the thirty third of his age. 1827Ibid. VI. 280 When any offer themselves for our Itinerancy. 1840Ibid. IX. 7 Thomas Hutton entered upon our itinerancy in the year 1789..In the year 1827 he retired from the regular ministry. 1885Ibid. 37 He was thirty years in the itinerancy. |