What does eyre mean?

Definitions for eyre
ɛəreyre

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Eyre, Lake Eyrenoun

    a shallow salt lake in south central Australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Eyrenoun

    The court of justices itinerants; and justices in eyre are those only, which Bracton in many places calls justiciarios itinerantes. The eyre also of the forest is nothing but the justice-seat, otherwise called; which is, or should by ancient custom, be held every three years by the justices of the forest, journeying up and down to that purpose. John Cowell

    Etymology: eyre, French; iter, Latin.

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  1. eyre

    "Eyre" is a term originating from medieval England. It refers to a type of circuit court, wherein judges would travel (a journey termed an "eyre") around a specific geographic circuit to hear and determine local cases. It also refers to these royally commissioned journey inspections themselves. The term is also occasionally seen as a surname.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Eyrenoun

    a journey in circuit of certain judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere)

  2. Etymology: [OF. erre journey, march, way, fr. L. iter, itineris, a going, way, fr. the root of ire to go. Cf. Errant, Itinerant, Issue.]

Wikidata

  1. Eyre

    An Eyre or Iter was the name of a circuit traveled by an itinerant justice in medieval England, or the circuit court he presided over, or the right of the king to visit and inspect the holdings of any vassal. The eyre involved visits and inspections at irregular intervals of the houses of all vassals in the kingdom. The eyre of 1194, was intitiated under Hubert Walter's justiciarship to restore royal justice following the anarchy of Prince John's rebellion. Within two months, justices on eyre had visited every shire in England. The Articles of Eyre appointed local knights as coroners to record crown pleas to be presented to the justices. The motivation for this administrative reform was the need to raise money for King Richard I's reconquest of Normandy. The coroners were also required to account for the wealth forfeited by the rebels and list the financial resources of each shire. The 1233 Eyre of Cornwall, provoked terror in the populace causing most of the population to flee into the woods.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Eyre

    ār, n. a journey or circuit: a court of itinerant justices.—Justices in eyre, itinerant judges who went on circuit. [O. Fr. eire, journey, from L. iter, a way, a journey—īre, itum, to go.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. EYRE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Eyre is ranked #12941 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Eyre surname appeared 2,374 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Eyre.

    92.7% or 2,201 total occurrences were White.
    2.8% or 67 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.7% or 41 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.3% or 31 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.8% or 20 total occurrences were Black.
    0.5% or 14 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of eyre in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of eyre in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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