unmitre

U1N1M3I1T1R1E1

verb

To deprive of a mitre; to depose from the rank of bishop.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

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

present singular third person unmitres · participle present unmitring · participle past unmitred · past unmitred · alternative unmiter

  1. transitiveTo deprive of a mitre; to depose from the rank of bishop.

    It is not the unfrocking of a Priest , the unmitring of a Bishop

    1644, 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

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