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Webster 1913 Edition


Unmitre

{

Un-mi′ter

,

Un-mi′tre

}
,
Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+
miter
.]
To deprive of a miter; to depose or degrade from the rank of a bishop.
Milton.

Definition 2024


unmitre

unmitre

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Verb

unmitre (third-person singular simple present unmitres, present participle unmitring, simple past and past participle unmitred)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of a mitre; to depose from the rank of bishop.
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