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▪ I. iter, n.|ˈɪtə(r), ˈaɪtə(r)|
Pl. iters, ‖ iˈtinera.
[a. L. iter journey, way, road; in sense 1, med.L.]
1. Hist. A circuit of the Justices in Eyre or the Justices of Assize or the Forest; = eyre 1. Also transf. Any similar circuit.
1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. lxi. 192 These Iters were little other than visitations of the Countrey by the grand Council of Lords. 1682Enq. Elect. Sheriffs 45 A Sentence or Verdict of the Judges of the Iter's, or of the Courts at Law. a1734North Lives (1826) I. 79 The court of the forest is in the nature of an iter. 1876W. C. Smith in Encycl. Brit. IV. 64/1 The Lord Chamberlain, by his Iter, or circuit of visitation, maintained a common standard of right and duties in all burghs.
b. The record of proceedings during a circuit.
1598J. Manwood Lawes Forest iii. §2 (1615) 34 The Assises or Iters of Pickring and Lancaster are, as it were, the bookes of yeeres and Termes, unto the Forest Lawes. 1668Ant. Kal. & Inv. (1836) III. 441 Search such iters and other records..as..Chislett shall desire.
2. A Roman road or line of travel.
1751Phil. Trans. XLVII. 216 In the second iter of Antonine's Itinerary, we find..Eboracum. 1771Antiq. Sarisb. 8, A.D. 140, in the reign of Antoninus, Britain was divided into Itinera or public Roads from one end of the Kingdom to the other. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) I. 52 This singular structure..so unlike anything usually found on the line of the legionary iters. 1873Burton Hist. Scot. I. i. 14 In the route of the ninth iter.
3. Anat. A way or passage; spec. the tubular cavity leading from the third to the fourth ventricle of the brain.
1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 206 The lateral ventricles and the iter have been found dilated without any obvious mechanical cause.
▪ II. † ˈiter, v. Obs. rare.
[a. F. itérer (1488 in Godef.), ad. L. iterā-re to iterate.]
trans. To iterate, repeat, renew. Hence † ˈitering vbl. n.
1530Palsgr. 145 Some betoken ittering or renewing of a dede. Ibid. 594/2, I iter, or renewe, or do a thyng agayne, or do a thyng ofte tymes, je itere. |