mitred

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English mytred; equivalent to mitre (“pointed hat”) +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

Adjective

mitred (not comparable)

  1. Wearing an abbot's or bishop's mitre.
    • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. , volume I, Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, , →OCLC, pages 275–276:
      Our Fathers must hide themselves rather like robbers who chuse a leader, than godly priests who elect a mitred Abbot. […] And mark me, brother! not in the proudest days of the mitred Abbey, was a Superior ever chosen, whom his office shall so much honour, as he shall be honoured, who now takes it upon him in these days of tribulation.
    • 1871, Elizabeth Missing Sewell, European History, page 193:
      Mitred emissaries also passed from Gregory to the Emperor, summoning him to attend the diet within a time by which no one unwafted by wings or steam could have reached the place […]
    • 1904, George Hodges, Fountains Abbey, the story of a mediaeval monastery, page 2:
      Their leaves were green when the Abbey rose in splendour, and mitred abbots walked in their shadow.
    • 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 71:
      Again I bestride the mitred, leather-winged steed.
  2. Having a mitre joint.

Verb

mitred

  1. simple past and past participle of mitre

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