ITINERANCY


Meaning of ITINERANCY in English

-rənsē, -si noun

( -es )

1.

a.

(1) : the action of itinerating

preached to many people in the course of his itinerancy

(2) : the condition of being itinerant

the itinerancy of a medieval minstrel

b. : a system (as in the Methodist Church) of rotating ministers who itinerate

features of the episcopacy and the itinerancy — F.S.Mead

2.

a. : official work or duty that involves traveling about from place to place (as in covering a preaching circuit)

returned to the itinerancy — J.W.Johnston

b. : a group of persons (as preachers, judges) having such work or duty

a member of the itinerancy

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.