Mitred
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈmaɪ.təd/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Mitred is an adjective meaning Wearing an abbot's or bishop's mitre.
Meaning
Wearing an abbot's or bishop's mitre.
More Meanings
- Having a mitre joint.
- simple past and past participle of mitre
Example Sentences
Again I bestride the mitred, leather-winged steed.
Their leaves were green when the Abbey rose in splendour, and mitred abbots walked in their shadow.
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 […]
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.
Word Forms
- mitered
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include abbots, mitrate, mitriform, mitral, bemittened, mimated.
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