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Definition of Mitres
1. mitre [v] - See also: mitre
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mitres
Literary usage of Mitres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Elaborate mitres of this kind had not only an ornamental band (circulus) on ...
Similar mitres are also mentioned in the inventory of 1295 of Boniface VIII. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"I do not suppose that mitres have ever been used by English bishops since ...
Such instances as this do not, however, prove that mitres were actually worn ..."
3. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"mitres and staffs of silver-gilt were carried at the funerals of Juxon, Duppa,
Frewen, Cosin, and Wren, Trelawny (1721), and Lindsay (1724); the mitres only ..."
4. English Church Furniture by John Charles Cox, Alfred Harvey (1908)
"All these were for the service of the altar, and in addition were Processional
and other Crosses, Croziers or Pastoral Staffs, and mitres. ..."
5. A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry by Henry Gough, James Parker (1894)
"The ab- hots' mitres drawn in that document are precisely similar in form, ...
Earlier mitres -were generally lower: in later times they have usually heen ..."
6. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"... the seeking of a new crown kept the abbots' old mitres upon their heads ; and
monasteries, tottering at this time, were (thank a politic archbishop) re- ..."
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