Ithuriel's-spear 
fornian liliaceous plant Brodi&a (Triteleia) 
laxa. 
ithyphalli, . Plural of itkyphalhu, 1. 
ithyphallic (ith-i-fal'ik), a. [< L. itliyphalK- 
cus, < Gr. IBvipaAAiKOf, < mvijtaVjic, a phallus, < 
Idif, straight, erect, 4- $<M6f, phallus: see 
phallus.'} 1 . Pertaining to or characterized by 
an ithyphallus, or the ceremonies associated 
with its use as a religious symbol, etc. 
It is probable that the ithypliallic ceremonies, which 
the gross flattery of the degenerate Greeks sometimes em- 
ployed to honor the Macedonian princes, had the same 
meaning. Knight, Anc. Arts and Myth. (1876), p. 98. 
Hence 2. Grossly indecent; obscene. 
An ithyphallic audacity that insults what is most sacred 
and decent among men. Christian Examiner. 
3. In anc. pros., sung in phallic processions; 
specifically, noting a group of three trochees or 
a period containing such a group. 
ithyphallus (ith-i-fal'us), . [L., < Gr. WtyaA- 
>,of, < ifli'f, straight, erect, + <jaAA6(, phallus.] 
1. PI. ithyphalli (-i). In archteol., etc., an erect 
phallus. 2. [cap.'] [NL.] In cntom., a genus 
of weevils or curculios: same as Stenptarsus of 
Schonherr, which name is preoccupied in the 
same order. Harold, 1875. 
-itial. [< L. -4tins, -icius, + -al.} A compound 
adjective termination occurring in a few words, 
as cardinalitial. 
Itieria (it-i-e'ri-a), n. [NL. (Saporta, 1873), so 
called after the original collector, M. Itier.} A 
genus of fossil algre, of the family Laminari- 
uceie, having cartilaginous, compressed, many 
times dichotomously branching fronds, provid- 
ed with turbinate, subglobose, probably blad- 
dery, terminal or axillary expansions, which ap- 
pear to have served as air-bladders, as in the 
bladder- wrack. Two species are known, from the Up- 
per Jurassic of Orbagnoux (Ain) and Saint Mihiel (Meuse) 
in France. 
itineracy (i-tiu'e-ra-si), u. [< itina-a(te) + -cy. 
Cf. itinerancy. } The practice or habit of trav- 
eling from place to place ; the state of being 
itinerant. 
The cumulative values of long residence are the re- 
straints on the itineracy of the present day. 
Emerson, History. 
itinerancy (i-tin'e-ran-si), M. [< itlneran(t) + 
-cy.} 1. The act of traveling from place to 
place ; especially, a going about from place to 
place in the discharge of duty or the prosecu- 
tion of business: as, the itinerancy of circuit 
judges or of commercial travelers. 2. Espe- 
cially, in the Meth. Cli., the system of rotation 
governing the ministry of that church, in parts 
of the western United States and in England several com- 
munities are grouped into "circuits," and each "circuit" 
is ministered to by itinerant preachers or ' ' circuit-riders. " 
Methodism, with its "lay ministry" and its itinerancy, 
could alone afford the ministrations of religion to this over- 
flowing population. Stevens, Hist. Methodism. 
itinerant (I-tin'e-raut), a. ami . [< LL. itinu- 
ran(t-)s, ppr. of itincrari, travel, journey: see 
itinerate.} I. a. Traveling from place to place; 
wandering; not settled; strolling; specifically, 
going from place to place, especially on a cir- 
cuit, in the discharge of duty: as, an itinerant 
preacher; an itinerant judge. 
In the Winter and Spring time he usually rode the Cir- 
cuit as a Judge Itinerant through all his Provinces, to see 
justice well administerd. Milton, Hist. Eng., v. 
I believe upon a good deal of evidence that these ancient 
kings were itinerant, travelling or ambulatory personages. 
Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 179. 
Itinerant bishop. See bishop. 
II. n. One who travels from place to place; a 
traveler; a wanderer; specifically, one who 
travels from place to place, especially on a 
circuit, in the discharge of duty or the pursuit 
of business, as an itinerant judge or preacher, 
or a strolling actor. 
Glad to turn itinerant, 
To stroll and teach from town to town. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, III. ii. 92. 
Vast sums of money were lavishly bestowed upon these 
secular itinerants, which induced the monks and other ec- 
clesiastics to turn actors themselves. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 233. 
Inns for the refreshment and security of the itinerants 
were scattered along the whole line of the route from 
France. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 6. 
itinerantly (i-tm'e-rant-li), adv. In an itiner- 
ant, unsettled, or wandering manner. 
itinerarium (i-tin-e-ra'ri-um), n. ; pi. itineraries 
(-a). [LL. (in del 2, ML.): see itinerary.] 1. 
Same as itinerary, 2. 2. A portable altar. 
itinerary (i-tin'e-ra-ri), a. and . [= F. itine- 
raire = Sp. Pg. It. ' itinerario, < LL. itinerarius, 
pertaining to a journey, neut. itinerarium, an 
accountof a journey, aroad-book, < iter (itiner-), 
away, journey: see itinerate.} I. a. 1. Travel- 
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ing; passing from place to place, especially on 
a circuit : as, an itinerary judge. 
He did make a progress from Lincoln to the northern 
parts, though it was rather an itinerary circuit of Justice 
than a progress. Bacon, Hist. Hen. VII. 
The law of England, by its circuit or itinerary courts, 
contains a provision for the distribution of private Justice, 
in a great measure relieved from both these objections. 
Paley, Moral Philos., iv. 8. 
2. Of or pertaining to a journey ; specifically, 
pertaining to an official journey or circuit, as 
of a judge or preacher: as, itinerary observa- 
tions. 3. Pertaining to descriptions of roads, 
or to a road-book: as, an itinerary unit Itine- 
rary column. See column, 1. 
II. n. ; pi. itineraries (-riz). 1. A plan of 
travel; a list of places to be included in a 
journey, with means of transit and any other 
desired details: as, to make out an itinerary of 
a proposed tour. 2. An account of a line of 
travel, or of the routes of a country or region, 
of the places and points of interest, etc.; a 
work containing a description of routes and 
places, in successive order: as, an itinerary 
from Paris to Borne, or of France or Italy ; 
Antonine's "Itinerary of the Roman Empire." 
Also itinerarium. 
Now Habassia, according to the Itineraries of the ob- 
servingst Travelers in those Parts, is thought to be, in re- 
spective Magnitude, as big as Germany, Spain France, and 
Italy conjunctly. Bou-eU, Letters, ii. 9. 
The Rudge Cup, found in Wiltshire and preserved at Aln- 
wick Castle, . . . contains, engraved in bronze, an itine- 
rary along some Roman stations in the north of England. 
Encyc. Brit., XIII. 130. 
3. An itinerant journey ; a regular course of 
travel ; a tour of observation or exploration. 
It [Mr. Poncet's journey] was the first intelligible itin- 
erary made through these deserts. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 474. 
4. In the Horn. C'ath. Ck., a form of prayer for 
the use of the clergy when setting out on a 
journey: generally placed at the end of the 
breviary. It consists of the canticle Benedic- 
tus, with an antiphon, preces, and two collects. 
5f. One who journeys from place to place. 
[Rare.] 
A few months later Bradford was appointed one of the 
six chaplains of Edward VI., chosen " to be itineraries, to 
preach sound doctrine in all the remotest parts of the 
kingdom." Biog. Notice in Bradford's Works (Parker 
[Soc., 1853), II. xxv. 
itinerate (i-tin'e-rat), r. >.; pret. and pp. itiner- 
ated, ppr. itinerating. [< LL. itineratus, pp. of 
itinerary, go on a journey, travel, journey, < L. 
iter, rarely itiner (stem itiner-, rarely iter-), a 
going away, journey, march, road: see iter.} 
To travel from place to place, as in the prose- 
cution of business, or for the purpose of hold- 
ing court or of preaching; journey in a regu- 
lar course. 
The Bedford meeting had at this time its regular minis- 
ter, whose name was John Burton ; so that what Bunyan 
received was a roving commission to itinerate in the vil- 
lages round about. Southey, Bunyan, p. 38. 
There is reason to believe that the English Kings itiner- 
ated in the same way and mainly for the same purpose. 
Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 181. 
itineration (i-tin-e-ra'shon), n. [< ML. "itine- 
ratio(n-),<. itinerdri, journey: see itinerate.} A 
journey from place to place ; a tour of action 
or observation. [Rare.] 
A great change has come over this part since last year, 
owing, I suspect, to the itinerations which Dr. Caldwell 
has undertaken. S. Kimnyton, Madras (1876). 
-ition. [< L. -itio(n-), in nouns from a pp. in 
-itus: see -ite 1 and. -ion, and -Won.] Acompound 
noun termination, as in expedition, extradition, 
etc., being -tion with a preceding original or for- 
mative vowel, or in other words, -ite 1 + -4on. 
See -ite 1 , -ion, -tion. 
-itious. [< -iti(on) + -ous, equiv. to -ite 1 + -ous : 
see words with this termination. ] A compound 
adjective termination occurring in adjectives 
associated with nouns in -ition, as expeditious, 
etc. See -ition, -tious. 
-itis. [NL., etc., -itis, < L. -itis, < Gr. -mr, fern., 
associated with -ITIK, masc., term, of adjectives 
(which are often used as nouns), ' of the nature 
of,' 'like,' etc.: see -ite%.} A termination used 
in modern pathological nomenclature to sig- 
nify 'inflammation' of the part indicated, as 
in bronchitis, otitis, conjunctivitis, stomatitis, en- 
teritis, etc. 
-itive. [< L. -itivus, in adjectives from a pp. in 
-itus : see -ite 1 and -ive.} A compound adjective 
termination of Latin origin, as in definitive, in- 
_ finitive, fugitive. See -ite 1 and -ive. 
its (its). The possessive case of the neuter 
pronoun it. See it, 1 (e), and he*, I., C (b). 
-ive 
itself (it-self), pron. [Early mod. E. also it- 
self e; < ME. it self, it selve, being it with the 
agreeing adj. self: see it and self, and himself.} 
The neuter pronoun corresponding to himself, 
herself. (See himself.) Its emphatic and reflex- 
ive uses are like those of himself. 
The course of heaven, and fate itself, in this, 
Will Caesar cross. B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. 
You are gentle ; he is gentleness itself. 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Malta, ii. 5. 
Here doth the river divide ttselfe into 3 or 4 convenient 
branches. Capt. John Smith, Works, I. 118. 
Mahometism hath dispersed itself over almost one half 
of the huge Continent of Asia. Howell, Letters, ii. 10. 
By itself, alone ; apart ; separately from anything else. 
Lande argillose, and not cley by it selve, 
Ys commodiouse. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 49. 
This letter being too long for the present paper, I intend 
to print it by itself very suddenly. Steele, Tatler, No. 164. 
In and by itself, In or of itself, separately considered ; 
in its own nature ; independently of other things. 
Our Mother tongue, which truelie of it selfe is both full 
enough for prose, and stately enough for verse, hath long 
time been counted most bare and barren of both. 
Spenser, To Mayster Gabriel Haruey. 
To be on land after three months at sea is of itself a great 
change. Macaulay, Life and Letters, I. 322. 
A false theory . . . that what a thing is, it is in itself, 
apart from all relation to other things or the mind. 
E. Caird, Hegel, p. 10. 
In and for Itself. See ini. 
ittria, . Seeyttria. 
ittrium, H. See yttrium. 
iturite-fiber (it'u-rit-fi'ber), n. [< itur, native 
name, + -ite + fiber.} The tough bark of the 
Maranta obliqua, a plant of British Guiana. It 
is used by the Indians for making baskets. 
-ity. [< F. -ite, OF. -ete, -eteit, etc., = Sp. -idad 
= Pg. -idade = It. -ita, also *itate, -itade, < L. 
-i-ta( -)s, ace. -itatem , being the common abstract 
formative -ta(t-)s () E. -ty) with a preceding 
orig. or supplied vowel: see -ty'*.} A common 
termination of nouns of Latin origin or formed 
after Latin analogy, from adjectives, properly 
from adjectives of Latin origin or type, as in 
activity, civility, suavity, etc., but also in some 
words from adjectives not of Latin origin or 
type, as in jollity. The suffix is properly -ty, 
the preceding vowel belonging originally to the 
adjective. See -ty%. 
itzeboot, itzebut, itzibut, . See bu. 
iulant (i-u'lan), a. [< L. iuhis, down, a catkin 
(< Gr. ZowXof, down, the down on plants, also, 
like oi/lof, a corn-sheaf; cf. oMoj, woolly), + 
-an.} Downy; soft like down. 
We two were in acquaintance long ago, 
Before our chins were worth iulan down. 
Middleton, Changeling, i. 1. 
Iva (i'vii), n. [NL. : see inj%.~\ 1. A specific 
name of the ground-pine Ajuga Iva orA. Chamte- 
pitys. 2. [So named by Linneeus as resem- 
bling the ground-pine Ajuga Iva in smell.] A 
small genus of composite plants, of the tribe 
Heliantlioidea',type of the old tribe Ive<E. They are 
herbs or shrubs with entire dentate or dissected leaves, at 
least the lower ones opposite, and small spicately, race- 
mosely, or paniculately disposed or scattered and common- 
ly nodding heads, which incline to be polygamo-dioacious 
through abortion of the ovaries. Seven or eight species 
are known, from North and South America and the West 
Indies. The maritime species, particularly /. frtttescens, 
are called marsh-elder or high-water shrub. 
ivaarite (iv-a-ii'rit), . [< Ivaara (see del'.) 
+ -ite 2 .} A mineral from Ivaara in Finland, 
resembling and perhaps identical with schorlo- 
mite. 
ive 1 !, n. An obsolete form of ivy 1 . 
ive 2 t, . See ivy 1 *. 
-ive. [ME. -ire, -if = OF. -if, m., -ive, f., = Sp. 
Pg. It. -ivo, m., iva, f., < . -ivus, m., -iva, f., 
-ivuni, neut., a common term, of adjectives 
formed from verbs, either from the inf. stem, 
as in gradims, or from the perfect-participle 
stem, as in aetivns, active, passims, passive, 
relativus, relative, etc., the sense being nearly 
equiv. to that of a present participle, as in the 
examples cited, or instrumental, 'serving to 
do' so and so, as in nominatii-us, serving to 
name, etc.] A termination of Latin origin, 
forming adjectives from verbs, meaning 'do- 
ing' so and so, or 'serving to do' so and so, or 
otherwise noting an adjective status, as in ac- 
tive, acting, passive, suffering, demonstrative, 
serving to show, formative, serving to form, 
purgative, serving to purge, adoptive, collective, 
festive, furtive, iiatice, infinitive, relative, etc. 
Many such adjectives are also used as nouns, as in some 
of the examples cited. The termination is commonly at- 
tached in Latin to the past-participle stem in -at-, -et-, -it-, 
-S-, and hence appears in English most frequently in such 
