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Itinerant vs Circumforanean - What's the difference?

itinerant | circumforanean |

As adjectives the difference between itinerant and circumforanean

is that itinerant is habitually travelling from place to place while circumforanean is wandering from market to market; vagabond, itinerant.

As a noun itinerant

is one who travels from place to place.

itinerant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Habitually travelling from place to place.
    • an itinerant preacher or peddler
  • * Blackstone
    • The king's own courts were then itinerant , being kept in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who travels from place to place.
  • (Ireland) a member of the Travelling Community, whether settled or not.

    • External links

    * (wikipedia "itinerant")

    circumforanean

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Wandering from market to market; vagabond, itinerant.
  • *, New York, 2001, p.209:
  • *:I am the bolder to insert, as not borrowed from circumforanean rogues and gypsies, but out of the writings of worthy philosophers and physicians […].