mitred

M3I1T1R1E1D2
UK/ˈmaɪ.təd/US/ˈmaɪ.tɚd/

adjective

Wearing an abbot's or bishop's mitre.

RareScrabble 9

Meanings

adjectivemitred (not comparable)

alternative mitered

  1. not comparableWearing an abbot's or bishop's mitre.

    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
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    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.

    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

    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

    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
  2. not comparableHaving a mitre joint.
verb

alternative mitered

  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of mitre

Origin

  1. Middle Englishmytred
  2. Englishmitred

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

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Chicago

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