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- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of mitred.
We have no myths, no traditions, or mitered Bishops to lord it over God’s heritage.
1854, Minutes of the Ninth Anniversary of the Wisconsin Baptist State Convention and of the First Anniversary of the Wisconsin Baptist Education Society, Held in Madison, Wisconsin, October 26-7, 1853^([sic]), Kenosha, Wis.: […] [T]he Telegraph Office, page 212 more examples
In a Parliament at London, it was decreed, that euery duke ſhoulde pay ten markes to the king, the archebyſhops the like, Erles, biſhopes ⁊ mitered abbots ſhould geue vi. markes and for euery Monke xl. pence, no religious perſon, man or woman, parſon, vicare or chapleine eſcaped this taxe.
1575, Iohn Stowe, A Summarie of the Chronicles of England, from the First Comming of Brute into This Land, vnto This Present Yeare of Christ 1575, London: […] Richard Tottle and Henry Binneman, pages 295–296Reid said they are looking at something like a bishop emeritus, or “mitered abbots” who keep their crosier, or shepherd’s hook, and ring.
2010 March 20, Jennifer Green, “Canadian Anglicans ask to join Catholic Church”, in Ottawa Citizen, page A8, column 2
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of miter
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