mitred
Collocations
4VERB + MITRED
elect
MITRED + NOUN
abbey, abbot, abbots, emissaries, mark
PREP.
in, in
ADV.
also
Definitions
adj
Wearing an abbot's or bishop's mitre.
Our Fathers must hide themselves rather like robbers who chuse a leader, than godly priests who elect a mitred Abbot. […] And mark me, brother! not in the proudest days of the mitred Abbey, was a Superior ever chosen, whom his office shall so much honour, as he shall be honoured, who now takes it upon him in these days of tribulation.
Mitred emissaries also passed from Gregory to the Emperor, summoning him to attend the diet within a time by which no one unwafted by wings or steam could have reached the place […]
Having a mitre joint.
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3Our Fathers must hide themselves rather like robbers who chuse a leader, than godly priests who elect a mitred Abbot. […] And mark me, brother! not in the proudest days of the mitred Abbey, was a Supe
WiktionaryMitred emissaries also passed from Gregory to the Emperor, summoning him to attend the diet within a time by which no one unwafted by wings or steam could have reached the place […]
WiktionaryTheir leaves were green when the Abbey rose in splendour, and mitred abbots walked in their shadow.
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