mitered

English

Etymology

From miter + -ed.

Adjective

mitered (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of mitred.
    • 1575, Iohn Stowe, A Summarie of the Chronicles of England, from the First Comming of Brute into This Land, vnto This Present Yeare of Christ 1575, London: [] Richard Tottle and Henry Binneman, pages 295–296:
      In a Parliament at London, it was decreed, that euery duke ſhoulde pay ten markes to the king, the archebyſhops the like, Erles, biſhopes ⁊ mitered abbots ſhould geue vi. markes and for euery Monke xl. pence, no religious perſon, man or woman, parſon, vicare or chapleine eſcaped this taxe.
    • 1854, Minutes of the Ninth Anniversary of the Wisconsin Baptist State Convention and of the First Anniversary of the Wisconsin Baptist Education Society, Held in Madison, Wisconsin, October 26-7, 1853[sic], Kenosha, Wis.: [] [T]he Telegraph Office, page 21:
      We have no myths, no traditions, or mitered Bishops to lord it over God’s heritage.
    • 2010 March 20, Jennifer Green, “Canadian Anglicans ask to join Catholic Church”, in Ottawa Citizen, page A8, column 2:
      Reid said they are looking at something like a bishop emeritus, or “mitered abbots” who keep their crosier, or shepherd’s hook, and ring.

Verb

mitered

  1. simple past and past participle of miter

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