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Definition of Mitred
1. Adjective. In materials joints, the division of an angle between two pieces, as opposed to a butt. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to an abbot's or bishop's mitre. ¹
3. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a mitre joint. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mitred
1. mitre [v] - See also: mitre
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mitred
Literary usage of Mitred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"The bishops appeared mitred at the coronation of George III. In 1645, at York,
the vestry contained two double-gilt coronets, the tops with globes and ..."
2. A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green (1884)
"... the mitred abbots, and a large creation of new peerages in favor of court
favorites and dependents, left the House of Lords yet more helpless against ..."
3. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"... The mitred head * was dashed with brains and gore, Ghastly with scenes of
death, and mangled limbs, And black with clotted blood each pavement swims, ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In 1901 the number of pupils in all the Roscrea, each ruled by a mitred abbot,
and having forty-three professed priests. if there be such. ..."
5. The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to by Henry Hallam (1876)
"... when, by the fall of the mitred abbots, the secular peers acquired a preponderance
in number over the spiritual which they had not previously enjoyed. ..."
6. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"(Abbots, mitred.¡ Mittimus. [L., we send.} In Law, (I) a writ by which records
used to be transferred from one court to another ; (2) a document, ..."
7. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"As for the arms of Waltham abbey, being loath to set them alone, I have joined
them in the following draught with the arms of the other mitred abbeys, ..."
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