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mitered

[mahy-terd]

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adjective

shaped like a bishop's miter or having a miter-shaped apex.

wearing, or entitled or privileged to wear, a miter.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English; see miter, -ed³

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Mitered is always a great word to know.

So is callithumpian. Does it mean:

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

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noun

the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.

the office or rank of a bishop; bishopric.

Judaism. the official headdress of the ancient high priest, bearing on the front a gold plate engraved with the words Holiness to the Lord. Ex. 28:36–38.

a fillet worn by women of ancient Greece.

Carpentry. an oblique surface formed on a piece of wood or the like so as to butt against an oblique surface on another piece to be joined with it.

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Nautical. the inclined seam connecting the two cloths of an angulated sail.

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verb (used with object)

to bestow a miter upon, or raise to a rank entitled to it.

to join with a miter joint.

to cut to a miter.

10.

to join (two edges of fabric) at a corner by various methods of folding, cutting, and stitching.

Also, especially British, mitre.