itinerancyn.
/ʌɪˈtɪnərənsi//ɪt-/ 1.
a. 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.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun]
haika1529
peregrination1548
itineration1623
removement1630
peripateticism1820
itinerancy1825
itineracy1827
1825 E. 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.
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. IV. viii. xiii. 197 Has he a fixed abode, or is he in a state of itinerancy.
1838 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 44 801 We recommend Lord Headfort to Mr. O'Connell as his attendant..on his next sacred itinerancy through Ireland.
1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer i. 9 We thus hear of the itinerancy of a stationary bard.
b. A body of itinerants.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > one who > body of
itinerancy1836
1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 40 458 The itinerancy of rebellion is even now haranguing throughout the land.
2.
a. 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.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] > itinerant
itinerancy1789
1789 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XIII. 278 If the trustees of houses are to displace Preachers, their itinerancy is at an end.
1791 J. Hampson Mem. J. Wesley III. 72 A distinguishing feature in this œconomy is itinerancy.
1811 S. Smith Wks. (1867) I. 201 The interchange or itinerancy of preachers.
1892 Daily 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.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun] > service of > itinerant
itinerancy1809
1809 Minutes 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.
1827 Minutes Wesleyan Confer. VI. 280 When any offer themselves for our Itinerancy.
1840 Minutes Wesleyan Confer. IX. 7 Thomas Hutton entered upon our itinerancy in the year 1789..In the year 1827 he retired from the regular ministry.
1885 Minutes Wesleyan Confer. IX. 37 He was thirty years in the itinerancy.
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