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titular, a. and n.|ˈtɪtjʊlə(r)|
[ad. L. type *titulār-is, f. titul-us title: see -ar1. Cf. F. titulaire (16th c.).]
A. adj.
1. a. That exists or is such only in title or name, as distinct from real or actual; holding or bearing a title without exercising the functions implied by it; nominal, so-styled. (Cf. nominal a. 4.)
titular abbot, one holding the title of abbot from a monastery that no longer exists as a religious community; titular bishop, in R.C. Ch., a bishop deriving his title from an ancient see lost to the control of the Roman pontificate: cf. quot. 1885.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. xli. §2. 145 After hee had enioyed a Titular Soueraignty only eighty dayes. 1612Brerewood Lang. & Relig. xvi. (1614) 133 Euer since then..the Church of Rome, hath, and doth still create successiuely, imaginary or titular Patriarchs (without iurisdiction) of Constantinople, Antiochia, Ierusalem, and Alexandria. 1640Yorke Union Hon. 22 Hee was invested tituler King of Sicile and Apulia. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) I. 58 Her mother the titular queen of Naples and Jerusalem. 1767A. Butler Short Acct. Life & Virtues of Mary of Holy Cross p. xviii, He repeated this Charge..to his Coadjutor and Successor the Right Reverend Benjamin Petre, titular Bishop of Prusa. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. viii. 247 Nothing remained of Strongbow's conquests save the shadow of a titular sovereignty. 1885Catholic Dict. 797 His Holiness Leo XIII has..by a recent decision substituted the phrase ‘Titular Bishop’ for ‘Bishop in Partibus Infidelium’. 1907Q. Rev. Jan. 100 His titular successors never once visited their confiscated diocese. 1934Webster, Titular abbot. 1977Church Times 1 July 14/2 Coventry. Benedictine anniversary... The Titular Abbot of Westminster will preach.
b. With limiting words, as but, mere(ly, only, expressing entire absence of the reality.
1591G. Fletcher Russe Commw. (Hakl. Soc.) 44 They are but men of a titular dignitie,.. of no power, authoritie, nor credit. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 36 To convince us that he is not a mere titular Deity. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1877) II. vii. 49 Recent events have abolished even the titular position of the city as the see of a Bishop.
2. Of, pertaining to, consisting of, or denoted by a title of dignity; also, having a title of rank, titled; bearing, or conferring, the appropriate title.
1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. (1614) Pref., Armes of the titular nobles. 1623Hexham Tongue-Combat 50 You finde them without traine, or pompe, or titular vanities. 1669Penn (title) No Cross, no Crown; or several sober Reasons against Hat-Honour, Titular Respects, You to a Single Person, with the Apparel and Recreations of the Times. a1704T. Brown Praise Poverty Wks. 1730 I. 97 A vain pride of birth and titular dignity. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1876) I. vii. 103 So far as concerns official and titular rank [he] was one of the chief of the Czar's subjects.
3. Of or pertaining to a title or name; of the nature of or constituting a title (in various senses). titular character, title-role.
1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini, Pol. Touchstone (1674) 269 Upon such a titular occasion as this. 1659Pearson Creed (1839) 292 By the propriety of the punishment, and the titular inscription, we know what crime was then objected to the immaculate Lamb. 1771Luckombe Hist. Print. 390 They set the first line of a Titular Summary all in Capitals. 1889Daily News 7 June 2/3 Madame Gargano in the titular character appeared to far better advantage than in ‘Il Barbiere’.
4. From whom or which a title or name is taken; spec. noting the parish churches of Rome from which the titles of the cardinals are derived (see title n. 9); hence transf. of a cardinal.
1664Fuller Triana & Paduana in Wounded Consc. etc. (1867) 185 As for Bondi, in a large oration he expressed his thankfulness before the company to his titular Saint. a1668R. Lassels Voy. Italy (1670) II. 162 [The church of St. Lawrence] is one of the five Patriarchal Churches, and therefore not titular of any Cardinal. 1706tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 16th C. II. v. 93 There are five Patriarchal Churches in Rome, Twenty-eight Titular ones, and Eighteen Diaconal ones. 1745Butler Lives Saints 11 May (1759) V. 199 He [St. Cataldus] is titular saint of the cathedral [Tarentum]. 1854Card. Wiseman Fabiola (1855) 141 The cardinals, or titular priests, received instructions about the administration of sacraments..during the persecution.
B. n.
1. Sc. Law. In full titular of the teinds (tithes): a layman who became possessed of the title to the tithes of an ecclesiastical benefice at or after the Reformation; a lord of erection.
1613Earl Wigton Let. in Hunter Biggar & Ho. Fleming xxvi. (1862) 337 Purchessing the Titular's consent to the samin did stand me at no less rate than ten thousand poundis Scottis. 1630Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1634. 13/2 Johnne lord Halyruidhous, titular of the personage teyndis of the parochin. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 398 Every land-holder may buy up the tiends affecting his estate at a specific price from the titular, who now holds them. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. s.v. Teinds, At the Reformation, the King..created the monasteries and priories into temporal lordships, the grantees to which were styled Lords of Erection, or Titulars of the Tithes. 1845McCulloch Taxation ii. iv. (1852) 191 The tithes in possession of the titulars or lay impropriators were more rigorously exacted than they had ever been by the clergy. 1894J. Russell Reminisc. Yarrow ix. 219 The Deans of the Chapel Royal, under the Crown, are the titulars of the tiends.
2. a. One who holds a title to an office, benefice, or possession, irrespective of the functions, duties, or rights attaching to it; spec. a cleric who bears a title (title n. 8) whether he performs the duties or not; esp. short for titular bishop.
1620Brent tr. Sarpi's Counc. Trent vi. 560 The Titular of Philadelphia, though a Dutch-man, said, that to deny it..was dangerous, and pernicious to grant it. 1682T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 66 (1713) II. 159 The whiffling Titular of Nova Scotia pretends to say something against our Veracity. 1826Southey Vind. Eccl. Angl. 204 The candid and urbane Titular says that the poet ought to be dragged down to the solid ground of authentic documents. 1885Pall Mall G. 31 Dec. (Cassell), The small advocate who has become the titular of a portfolio.
b. transf. One who has a title or appellation of some kind.
1824Landor Imag. Conv., Washington & Franklin Wks. 1846 I. 125/1 Gaming is the vice of those nations..which unite the worst qualities of both conditions [barbarous and civilized]; as for example, the rags and lace of Naples, its lazzaroni and other titulars. 1846Ibid., Emp. China & Tsing-Ti II. 117/1 He employed a humbler observer, known..by the more ordinary appellation of Spy, though the titular is never gazetted. 1828P. Cunningham N.S. Wales (ed. 3) II. 115 If he inquires his way through Sydney of one of our titulars [a convict with a mark or badge], (even decorated with a C.B. appendage), he runs a risk of having his pocket picked.
3. One who bears a title of rank; a titled person.
1757Herald No. 8 (1758) I. 126 No titular among them will accept..an employment beneath that of ambassador. 1829Landor Imag. Conv., Penn & Ld. Peterb. Wks. 1846 I. 521/2 All titulars else must be produced by others; a knight by a knight, a peer by a king, while a gentleman is self-existent.
4. R.C. Ch. (See quot. 1885.)
1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 496 They now, and the Pagans then, did vse to bestow them vpon the Saint and deity Tutelar and titular of the place. 1885Cath. Dict., Patron and Titular of church, place, &c... The titular is a wider term comprehending the persons of the Trinity, mysteries (e.g. Corpus Christi), and saints; the patron of a church can only be a saint or an angel... The feast of the principal titular or patron is a double of the first class with an octave. |