unˈmitred, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
1688 R. Holme Armory iv. xi. (Roxb.) 442/2 The Metropolitan..standing vnmittered..saith (the other Bishops standing vnmittered) this prayer. 1848 Lytton Harold ii. ii, Nor misdeem me, that I, humble, unmitred priest, should be thus bold. 1856 Masson Ess. Biog. & Crit. 43 Such an archbishop, mitred or unmitred, as England has never seen. |