单词 | unmitred |
释义 | unmitredunmiteredadj. Chiefly Christian Church. Of an ecclesiastic: not wearing a mitre; not having episcopal rank or authority; (esp. of a bishop) deprived of office, dismissed. Hence (of a non-ecclesiastic): having authority or influence compared to that of a bishop.spec. of an abbot: not entitled to wear a mitre (see mitred adj.1 2). ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > headgear > [adjective] > mitre > wearing or adorned with > not unmitred1688 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iv. xi. 442/2 The Metropolitan..standing vnmittered..saith (the other Bishops standing vnmittered) this prayer. 1723 A. de la Mottraye Trav. I. ii. 31 His Holiness, who was standing unmitred, receiv'd and eat it bowing. 1760 Comment on Late Extraordinary Let. 3 Among the living is the (O Shame!) unmitred Doctor Madan. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. ii. ii. 119 Nor misdeem me, that I, humble, unmitred priest, should be thus bold. 1856 D. Masson Ess. Biogr. & Crit. 43 Such an archbishop, mitred or unmitred, as England has never seen. 1894 O. S. Straus Roger Williams ii. 19 The intent and purpose of the founders of the commonwealth are forcibly expressed by John Cotton, who was its unmitered pope. 1933 Eng. Hist. Rev. 48 462 The lands held of priors and unmitred abbots (not of course bishops) were bound to pay. 1957 P. Rieff in Outlines Hist. Dogma Introd. p. xiv Harnack belonged to the unmitered hierarchy of Protestantism. 1967 P. le Huray Music & Reformation in Eng. Pl. 1 (caption) Henry VIII (top centre) is dispensing the Word of God to the unmitred Cranmer. 2009 P. J. Coby Thomas Cromwell i. 10 Princes became in effect unmitered bishops, charged with combating heresy and persecuting heretics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1688 |
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