mitred

English

Alternative forms

• mitered

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪ.təd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪ.tɚd/

Adjective

mitred (not comparable)

1. Wearing an abbot's or bishop's mitre.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 1871, Elizabeth Missing Sewell, European History, page 193:

     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 […]

   • 1904, George Hodges, Fountains Abbey, the story of a mediaeval monastery, page 2:

     Their leaves were green when the Abbey rose in splendour, and mitred abbots walked in their shadow.

   • 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 71:

     Again I bestride the mitred, leather-winged steed.

2. Having a mitre joint.

Related terms

• mitrate
• mitre
• mitriform

Verb

mitred

1. simple past and past participle of mitre

Anagrams

• tridem