mitredmiteredadj.1
/ˈmʌɪtəd/, U.S. /ˈmaɪdərd/ 1. † b. Bearing a representation of a mitre. Obsolete. rare.
a. Wearing or adorned with a mitre.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [adjective]
bishoplyc890
mitredc1400
hornedc1425
pontificalc1440
episcopal1485
bishoplike1544
rocheted?1544
rochet1561
pontificial1591
pontifician1618
lawny1647
episcopalian1822
society > faith > artefacts > vestments > headgear > [adjective] > mitre > wearing or adorned with
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c1400 (?c1308) Adam Davy's 5 Dreams (1878) 79 (MED) Þe pope ȝede bifore, mytred wel faire.
a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) 4186 As a bisshop mytred [myterd] in his stalle.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxliv. 300 Bisshops reuessed and mytered with senscers to welcome the kyng.
1562 in Rep. on Fœdera E. II. 48 The impure assemblie of those shaven fathers, those myteryd and redd-hattyd fellowes [at Trent].
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 23 in Justa Edouardo King He shook his mitered locks, and stern bespake.
1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther i. 12 Your Fangs you fastn'd on the miter'd crown.
1746 M. Clancy Hermon Prince of Choræa iv. i Confucius, O Founder of the mitred race.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 153 We will have her [sc. religion] to exalt her mitred front in courts and parliaments. View more context for this quotation
1805 R. Southey Madoc i. xv. 153 The mitred Baldwin, in his hand Holding a taper, at the altar stood.
1850 S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds 229 A leaden token..bears on the obverse a mitred head.
1863 J. R. Walbran Mem. Abbey St. Mary of Fountains I. 147 The abbot robed and mitred..standing under a trifoliated canopy.
1944 I. Layton in Poetry Feb. 257 For him the mitred cardinals sweat in Conclaves domed.
1990 D. Walcott Omeros xxvi. 143 Achille saw the same dances that the mitred warriors did with their bamboo stick as they scuttered around him.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of articles of clothing > [adjective] > having mitre(s)
mitred1772
mitry1847
1772–9 W. Mason Eng. Garden iv. 106 The fane conventual there is dimly seen, The mitred window, and the cloister pale.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1805) VII. 33 I see the mitred coach come rolling along.
2. Entitled to wear a mitre. Also figurative. mitred abbot n. [compare post-classical Latin abbas mitratus (late 12th cent.)] now chiefly historical an abbot invested by the Pope with the privilege of wearing a mitre (in England before the Reformation the mitred abbots were members of the House of Lords). mitred abbey n. [compare post-classical Latin beneficium mitratum (14th cent.)] now historical an abbey ruled by a mitred abbot.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > abbot > [noun] > mitred > jurisdiction of
mitred abbey1655
society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > abbot > [noun] > mitred
mitred abbot1714
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. v. 193 (MED) Loue wol lene [þe] suluer..More þan al þy marchauns oþer þy mytrede bisshopes.
c1400 Comm. on Canticles (Bodl. 288) in T. Arnold Sel. Eng. Wks. J. Wyclif (1871) III. 25 (MED) Bischopis mytrid wiþ two hornys..schulden..putte þe folk fro vicis to virtues.
1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xxviijv Whych of them shuld be hyghest in that mytred kingdome of ydelnesse.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccclxvijv The bishops..and..a few other mitred men.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 370 Many Mitred Abbeys have survived the dangerous Climactericall of the third Generation.
1658 J. Bramhall Consecration Protestant Bishops Justified vii. 139 One Bishop and two Mitred Abbats.
1714 H. Wanley Let. 4 Feb. (1989) 291 The Common Notion about Mitred Abbots is not adroit; since..divers Abbots sat in Parliament who were not Mitred.
1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 67 The bishop..related that conference to a friend of his, a dignified but not a mitred clergyman.
1830 Westm. Rev. 12 473 The methodist parson and the mitred bishop.
1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) III. xx. 445 The mitred and parliamentary abbeys were not identical.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. At the head of the Roman Catholic hierarchy..the mitred abbot of St. Alexander is the spiritual chief of the Mirdites.
1956 Speculum 31 90 (note) The Benedictine mitred abbey of St Peter.
1980 Antiquaries Jrnl. 60 172 The elevation of Norton Priory, Cheshire, to the status of mitred abbey.
3. Shaped like a mitre. Now rare. mitred headdress n. = mitre n.1 3f.
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the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > condition of tapering to a point > [adjective] > at the top
copped1460
mitreda1547
coppled1600
coped1611
fastigiated1647
cop-crowned1650
copped-crowned1650
copple-crowned1699
fastigiatea1705
tenting1818
tectiform1834
pedimented1875
pedimental1890
a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Biv Wyth mytred hattes, wyth oynted bushe and beard.
1786 R. Gough Sepulchral Monuments Great Brit. I. p. clxxv The knight has plated armour, and the lady the mitred headdress.
1883 Harper's Mag. July 246/1 Great chimneys,..each ending in a violent mitred decoration.
1906 H. Druitt Costume Monumental Brasses 270 The mitred head-dress without veil.
1919 R. Firbank Valmouth iv. 47 Humbling a mitred napkin with a dreamy hand.
1973 Man 8 11 Iconography has been concerned with the series of great basalt Viśnūs wearing a mitred head-dress.
4. Natural History. Of an animal or plant: having shape or coloration, esp. of the head, suggestive of a bishop's mitre.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xiii. 298/2 The Mitred, or coped Water hen, of Brasil,..hath a red skinny Miter.
1860 Chambers's Encycl. at Basilisk The Mitred or Hooded Basilisk (Basiliscus mitratus), a native of the tropical parts of America.
1887 W. D. Hay Elem. Text-bk. Brit. Fungi 140 Helvelia lacunosa, the Mitred Helvel.
1897 H. O. Forbes Hand-bk. Primates II. 137 The mitred langur, Semnopithecus mitratus.
1970 R. M. de Schauensee Guide Birds S. Amer. 99/2 Mitred parakeet. Aratinga mitrata.
1984 D. Macdonald Encycl. Mammals I. 399 Pith occurs in the diets of the Hanuman langur and the Maroon sureli and roots in those of the Hanuman langur and the Mitred sureli.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
mitredmiteredadj.2
/ˈmʌɪtəd/, U.S. /ˈmaɪdərd/ 1. Of a surface: having an end or edge shaped to an angle of 45 degrees. Also: designating a mitre joint; connected or united by such a joint.
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the world > space > shape > angularity > [adjective] > constituting an angle > half a right angle > shaped to 45 degrees
mitred1775
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [adjective] > joined > with specific joint
mortised1538
dovetailed1656
scarfed1704
tenoned1770
tongued and grooved1773
mitred1775
mitre-jointed1791
matched1833
stub-mortised1833
dadoed1859
lap-jointed1874
t. and g.1948
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Mitred, cut off at an angle of forty-five degrees.
1832 Skyring's Builders' Prices 18 Mitred and glued borders.
1847 A. C. Smeaton Builder's Pocket Man. (new ed.) 90 Fig. 26 represents a still neater dovetail; and, as the edges are mitred together, is termed a mitred dovetail.
1860 R. S. Burn Gloss. Techn. Terms Building 7 Mitred Borders, narrow widths of boarding placed round the front hearths to fireplaces.
1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 307/1 Mitred Rules. Rules which have their corners neatly joined, by being filed and carefully placed in their proper position.
1882 Cent. Mag. July 473/2 Hoop-iron or tin ties are sometimes used to sustain the partitions, but the mitered joint is better, especially in high chimneys.
1944 E. E. Haycraft in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder v. 220/2 The simplest method is to form a groove in both mitred surfaces and to insert a cross-grained tongue.
1990 Pract. Woodworking Mar. 29 (caption) Mitred strips for the remaining two edges are fixed in position with double-sided tape and the mitred joints are marked with a scalpel.
2. Lacemaking. Worked with a heading of right-angled points, giving the appearance of mitring. Cf. vandyked adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [adjective] > stitched or sewn > other
hemmeda1500
unhemmed1561
darned1628
felled1809
mitred1809
through-stitched1863
tuck-stitched1922
1809 E. Stanley Let. 20 Mar. in Lady Morgan Memoirs (1862) I. xxix. 363 You particularly mentioned mitred lace, but I think..the present fashion rather runs on the scolloped edge.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 16 May 3/2 Perpendicular mitred lines of insertion on the skirt.
1908 M. M. Pollen Seven Cent. of Lace Pl. CXX (caption) Two borders of appliqué lace, one with a..mitred..edge.
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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1453/2 Mitered (Bookbinding), said of a fillet ornamentation when the lines unite exactly at their junction without overrunning.
1880 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Art of Bookbinding xxii. 119 This [finishing with a full gilt back] is done in two ways, a ‘run up’ back and a ‘mitred’ back.
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