— itinerantly , adv.
/uy tin"euhr euhnt, i tin"-/ , adj.
1. traveling from place to place, esp. on a circuit, as a minister, judge, or sales representative; itinerating; journeying.
2. characterized by such traveling: itinerant preaching.
3. working in one place for a comparatively short time and then moving on to work in another place, usually as a physical or outdoor laborer; characterized by alternating periods of working and wandering: an itinerant farm hand.
n.
4. a person who alternates between working and wandering.
5. a person who travels from place to place, esp. for duty or business.
[ 1560-70; itinerant- (s. of itinerans ), prp. of itinerari to journey, equiv. to itiner- (s. of iter ) journey (see ITER) + -ant- -ANT ]
Syn. 1, 3. wandering, nomadic, migratory, unsettled, roving, roaming; peripatetic.
Ant. 1. settled.