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mitred

UK/ˈmaɪ.təd/US/ˈmaɪ.tɚd/

mitred adjective: wearing an abbot's or bishop's mitre. Also the simple past and past participle of mitre.

Adjective

mitred (not comparable)

  1. Wearing an abbot's or bishop's mitre.
    • 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...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...
    • 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 […]1871, Elizabeth Missing Sewell, European History, page 193
  2. Having a mitre joint.

Also used as

mitred is also the simple past and past participle of mitre.

Examples of mitred in a sentence

  • Their leaves were green when the Abbey rose in splendour, and mitred abbots walked in their shadow.1904, George Hodges, Fountains Abbey, the story of a mediaeval monastery, page 2:
  • Again I bestride the mitred, leather-winged steed.1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 71:

Forms of mitred

alternative formmitered

Origin of mitred

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

Questions about mitred

What does mitred mean?
Mitred means wearing an abbot's or bishop's mitre.
How do you use mitred in a sentence?
Their leaves were green when the Abbey rose in splendour, and mitred abbots walked in their shadow.
What part of speech is mitred?
Mitred is an adjective.
How do you pronounce mitred?
Mitred is pronounced /ˈmaɪ.təd/ (UK).

Words near mitred in the dictionary

  1. mitre shells
  2. mitre wheel
  3. mitre wheels
  4. mitre-joint
  5. mitre-joints
  6. mitred
  7. mitreless
  8. mitrer
  9. mitrers
  10. mitres
  11. mitrewort

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