单词 | circuit-rider |
释义 | > as lemmascircuit-rider circuit-rider n. = circuit-preacher n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] > Methodist itinerant rounder1809 circuit-preacher1830 rider1831 circuit-rider1837 1837 J. Cutting in A. Wetmore et al. Gazetteer Missouri 333 When Patsy gets her eye on the greyhound, she'll feel a heap gladder than when the circuit rider comes round! 1838 E. Flagg Far West II. 61 A little, portly, red~faced man..announced himself a Baptist circuit-rider. 1864 Congress. Globe 17 May 2317/3 As peripatetic as a tin-peddler's cart or a Methodist circuit-rider. 1894 H. H. Gardener Unoffic. Patriot 17 He intended to enter the ministry as a circuit rider. 1909 N.Y. Evening Post (semi-weekly ed.) 23 Sept. 5 A last survival was he of the old circuit rider of early Methodism. < as lemmas |
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