unmitring

Verb

unmitre (third-person singular simple present unmitres, present participle unmitring, simple past and past participle unmitred)

1. (transitive) To deprive of a mitre; to depose from the rank of bishop.
   • It is not the unfrocking of a Priest , the unmitring of a Bishop1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC