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A passage; esp., the passage between the third and fourth ventricles in the brain; the aqueduct of Sylvius.

Capable of being iterated or repeated. [Obs.]

Iteration. [Obs.]

Repeating; iterating; as, an iterant echo. Bacon.

To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat; as, to iterate advice. Nor Eve to iterate Her former trespass feared. Milton.

Recital or performance a second time; repetition. Bacon. What needs this iteration, woman Shak.

Repeating. Cotgrave. -- It"er*a*tive*ly, adv.

To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate. Sir T. Herbert.

To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester. He bores me with some trick. Shak. Used to come and bore me at rare intervals. Carlyle.

xisting or happening at the same time. There is no difference the concurrent echo and the iterant but the quickness or slowness of the return. Bacon. Changes . . . concurrent with the visual changes in the eye. Tyndall.

The cavity of the mesencephalon; the iter.

The passage between the iter and optocoele in the brain. B. G. Wilder.

The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse.

To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem. "I will repeat our former communication." Robynson (More's Utopia). Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish. Milton.…

The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration. I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition. Shak.

Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. [Obs.] "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.