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mitred en · ADJ

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

(not-comparable) Wearing 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:
- 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:
- 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:
(not-comparable) Having a mitre joint.

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

(form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of mitre
form of mitre

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