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▪ I. reiter, n.1 Now only Hist.|ˈraɪtə(r)|
Forms: 6–7 reyter, 7 raiter, 8 reitter, 7– reiter.
[a. G. reiter rider, trooper, f. reiten to ride. Cf. reister.]
A German cavalry soldier, esp. one of those employed in the wars of the 16th and 17th c.
1584Calendar Hatfield MSS. 85 The repaiement of certaine monney owinge to him for the intelligence of the Reyters. 1591Sir H. Unton Corr. (Roxb.) 249 This daye the Kinge departeth towards Gizors,..to drawe his whole armye of Reyters into those parts. 1617Moryson Itin. 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. 1670Cotton Espernon i. ii. 46 The Reiters which he had rais'd in Germany could not come to him. 1727–38Chambers Cycl., Reitters, an antient title given the German cavalry. 1820Ranken Hist. France VII. 19 Not a man of the Reiters or German infantry was spared. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 257 A retinue of forty reiters is a moderate attendance for a prelate out on a visitation.
▪ II. † ˈreiter, v. Obs. rare.
[ad. F. réitérer or L. reiterāre; cf. iter v.]
trans. To reiterate.
1577Frampton Joyful News iii. 108 b, By reiteryng [printed reteiryng] the wette Linnen clothe into the Balsamo it will bee healed. 1634Jackson Creed vii. xxiii, The same practise you have reitered against St. Stephen. |