▪ I. mitred, ppl. a.1
(ˈmaɪtəd)
[f. mitre n.1 and v.1 + -ed. Cf. med.L. mitrātus.]
1. Entitled or privileged to wear a mitre. mitred abbot (= med.L. abbas mitratus): an abbot invested by the pope with the privilege of wearing a mitre; hence mitred abbey (med.L. beneficium mitratum), an abbey ruled by a mitred abbot.
In England before the Reformation the mitred abbots were members of the House of Lords.
| c 1380 [see mitre v.1]. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. v. 193 More þan al þy marchauns oþer þy mytrede bisshopes, Oþer lumbardes of lukes þat lyuen by lone as Iewes. 1550 Bale Eng. Votaries ii. E iij, Whiche of them shuld be highest in that mitred kingdome of idlenesse. 1560 J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 368 The bishops..and..a few other mitred men. 1658 Bramhall Consecr. Bps. vi. 139 One Bishop and two Mitred Abbats. a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Yorks. (1662) ii. 190 Selby, where after he [Henry] founded a Mitred-Abby. 1759 Dilworth Pope 67 The bishop.. related that conference to a friend of his, a dignified but not a mitred clergyman. 1830 Westm. Rev. XII. 473 The methodist parson and the mitred bishop. 1878 Stubbs Const. Hist. III. xx. 445 The mitred and parliamentary abbeys were not identical. |
2. Wearing or adorned with a mitre.
| c 1420 Lydg. Story of Thebes 4186 As a bisshop, mytred, in his stalle. 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxliv. 300 Bisshops reuessed and mytered with senscers to welcome the kyng. 1562 in Rep. on Foedera E. II. 48 The impure assemblie of those shaven fathers, those myteryd and redd-hattyd fellowes [at Trent]. 1637 Milton Lycidas 112 He shook his Miter'd locks, and stern bespake. 1687 Dryden Hind & P. i. 202 Your fangs you fastened on the mitred crown. 1790 Burke Fr. Rev. 153 We will have her [sc. religion] to exalt her mitred front in courts and parliaments. 1805 Southey Madoc in W. xv, The mitred Baldwin, in his hand Holding a taper, at the altar stood. 1850 S. Tymms Bury Wills (Camden) 229 A leaden token..bears on the obverse a mitred head. 1863 J. R. Walbran Mem. Fountains Abbey (Surtees) 147 The abbot robed and mitred..standing under a trifoliated canopy. |
b. Bearing a representation of a mitre. rare.
| 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 464, I see the mitred coach come rolling along. 1772–9 W. Mason Eng. Garden iv. 106 The fane conventual there is dimly seen, The mitred window, and the cloister pale. |
3. Formed like a mitre; having a mitre-shaped apex; Nat. Hist. in specific names (= mod.L. mitrātus).
| a 1547 Surrey æneid iv. 277 With mitred hats, with oynted bush and beard. 1860 Chamb. Encycl. s.v. Basilisk, The Mitred or Hooded Basilisk (Basiliscus mitratus), a native of the tropical parts of America. 1887 Hay Brit. Fungi 140 Helvelia lacunosa, the Mitred Helvel. 1897 H. O. Forbes Hand-bk. Primates II. 137 The mitred langur, Semnopithecus mitratus. |
▪ II. mitred, ppl. a.2
(ˈmaɪtəd)
[f. mitre v.2 + -ed.]
In the senses of the verb.
| 1775 Ash, Mitred, cut off at an angle of forty-five degrees. 1832 Skyring's Builders' Prices 18 Mitred and glued borders. 1842 Gwilt Archit. §2285 (1859) 607 If grooved for balusters, circular..mitred and turned caps, such to be mentioned. 1847 Smeaton Builder's Man. 90 Fig. 26 represents a still neater dovetail; and, as the edges are mitred together, is termed a mitred dovetail. 1860 Burn Gloss. Techn. Terms Building 7 Mitred Borders, narrow widths of boarding placed round the front hearths to fireplaces. 1871 Ringwalt's Amer. Encycl. Printing, Mitred Rules. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech., Mitered. (Bookbinding). Said of a fillet ornamentation when the lines unite exactly at their junction without overrunning. 1880 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Bookbinding xxii. 119 This [finishing with a full gilt back] is done in two ways, a ‘run up’ back and a ‘mitred’ back. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 16 May 3/2 Perpendicular mitred lines of insertion on the skirt. |