MITRE

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) The ponwho tifical ornament worn on the head by the pope, cardinals, foland in some instances by abbots, in the Roman Catholic Church, and in the Protestant Episcopal Church by archbishops and bishops, upon solemn occasions. It appears to the have been a hierarchal head-covering from the earliest 1837, ages of antiquity. Pellerin says it was that worn by the of regal pontiffs of the Hebrews, and, with a few slight modifications,was afterwards adopted by the Oriental kings and pagan high priests under the name of cidaris. Among the Romans the mitre was originally a sort of head-dre worn by ladies; and Servius makes it a matter of reproach to the Phrygians that they were dre ed like women, inasmuch as they wore mitres. There is every reason for ■sup In posing that in England the mitre was worn by the bishops on the first introduction of Christianity into the island; and it is supposed in Oough's Sepulchral Monuments (vol. i., p 153) that the practice was borrowed from the apex or tutulus of the Flamen Dialis in ancient Rome. As an heral die ornament, the mitre of a bishop is surrounded by a fillet exset with precious stones: the archbishop's mitre, on the of other hand, i ues from a ducal coronet. Mitre. In Architecture, a junction of two pieces of [s. 774]