1556 J. Brett in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. (1897) 11 130 A Riter kneght and his men by all likelyhod redy for hyer to do any mischief sholde haue rydde me oute of the way... And albeit I soughte diuerse wayes howe to have bene rydde of the Ryters company yet colde I not be shefted thereof.

1584 Cal. Hatfield MSS. 85 The repaiement of certaine monney owinge to him for the intelligence of the Reyters.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 32 When the Fayres of Franckfort draw neere, they send out certaine Reyters, that is Horsemen..which conduct the Merchants and their goods out of the Frontiers.

1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon i. ii. 46 The Reiters which he had rais'd in Germany could not come to him.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Reitters, an antient Title given the German Cavalry.

1820 A. Ranken Hist. France VII. 19 Not a man of the Reiters or German infantry was spared.

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. 257 A retinue of forty reiters is a moderate attendance for a prelate out on a visitation.

1921 J. Buchan Path of King (1923) vii. 159 The Guisards and their reiters and a pack of 'prentices maddened by sermons.

1957 V. G. Kiernan in T. Aston Crisis in Europe (1970) v. 129 They themselves, mostly gentlemen-cavalry, hired Landsknechts and others to make up infantry, as well as numbers of the disorderly Reiter.

2002 J. Tincey Ironsides 8 Faced with a formed body of pikemen the reiter would ride into pistol range at a slow pace... A well-trained body of reiter could maintain their fire until the pike formation began to break up due to casualties.

1922 T. L. Stedman Pract. Med. Dict. (U.S. ed. 7) 859/2 Reiter's disease, a fever of a more or less remittent type, lasting about seventeen days, accompanied with pains in the joints, conjunctivitis, [etc.].

1946 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 79 134 (heading) The possible relationship of the pleuropneumonia-like organisms to Reiter's disease, rheumatoid arthritis and ulcerative colitis.

1972 C. B. S. Schofield Sexually Transmitted Dis. xvi. 183 Skin lesions..are found in about 10 per cent of patients with Reiter's disease.

1988 A. M. Silverstein Hist. Immunol. xi. 299 Some of these haplotype–disease associations involved the A, B, and C loci (e.g., A3 and B14 with idiopathic hemochromatosis; B27 with ankylosing spondylitis and Reiter's disease).

1947 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 2 40/1 To confuse the differential diagnosis still further, there are such ill defined syndromes as fibrositis, palindromic rheumatism, Reiter's syndrome and what is sometimes referred to as ‘psychogenic rheumatism’.

1998 Economist 21 Mar. 125/3 The same bacteria also cause Reiter's syndrome, a disease whose victims suffer not only inflamed joints, but also inflammation of the eyes and the urinary tract.

2004 Independent 16 Nov. (Review section) 13/5 Some rheumatology textbooks..strongly discourage the use of the term Reiter's syndrome. We prefer to call the condition reactive arthritis, because it occurs as a reaction to an infection that occurs elsewhere in the body.

c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 60 (MED) It nediþ noon oþir cure but for to reiteren þe same medicyne as often tyme as it nediþ.

1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes iii. f. 108^v By reiteryng [printed reteiryng; 1580 reiterating] the wette Linnen clothe into the Balsamo it will bee healed.

1634 T. Jackson Knowledg of Christ Jesus vii. xxiii The same practise you have reitered against St. Stephen.

1710 H. Chamberlen tr. F. Mauriceau Dis. Women with Child (ed. 4) 32 If, reitering the same Endeavours the eighth Month, he be born, he is thereby so weakned, that he seldom lives.

1726 D. Derodon Funeral of Mass 91 But the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ must not be reitered.