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eyre

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"Old judicial circuit"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ɛəɹ/Sorted eeryStarts with EEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Historical circuit or journey made by traveling judges.

Word origin

From Middle English eire, from Old French erre (“journey, march, way”), from Latin iter, itineris (“a going, way”), from the root of ire (“to go”). Compare errant, itinerant, issue.

Used in a sentence

  • The fact that the Surrey veredicta are uncancelled, and indeed their very survival, can doubtless be explained by the suspension of the eyre in June 1294, when consideration of the crown pleas had barely begun;

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