mitre
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1. mitre - Noun
2. mitre - Verb
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A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with two points or peaks.
The surface forming the beveled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.
A sort of base money or coin.
To place a miter upon; to adorn with a miter.
To match together, as two pieces of molding or brass rule on a line bisecting the angle of junction; to bevel the ends or edges of, for the purpose of matching together at an angle.
To meet and match together, as two pieces of molding, on a line bisecting the angle of junction.
See Miter.
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he covered the miter with glue before making the joint
And finally, the "bishop's mitre" spires are capped with hyperboloid structures. citation The paper explores the assemblies of second order hyperbolic surfaces as they are used throughout the design composition of the Sagrada Família Church building.
B&T WOULD shop at Mitre 10, however, we only attend hardware stores for the sausages, really.
Churches Catholic Church, Orthodox churches and Anglican churches further A mitre is used as a symbol of the bishop's ministry in Western Christianity.
In 2005, Pope Benedict XVI, while maintaining the crossed keys behind the shield, omitted the papal tiara from his personal coat of arms, replacing it with a mitre with three horizontal lines.
He was the first pope to choose a " papal inauguration " to commence his papacy rather than the traditional Papal Coronation Mass. Therefore, he would be given the mitre instead of the traditional tiara.