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单词 titled
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titledadj.n.

Brit. /ˈtʌɪtld/, U.S. /ˈtaɪd(ə)ld/
Forms:

α. Old English getiteled, Old English getitolod, early Middle English ititeled.

β. 1500s tytled, 1600s– titled.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: title v., -ed suffix1; title n., -ed suffix2.
Etymology: In α. forms < title v.+ -ed suffix1. In β. forms partly < title v.+ -ed suffix1, and partly < title n. + -ed suffix2.Apparently re-formed in the 16th cent.
A. adj.
1. Of a letter: written with a stroke above. Cf. title v. 1a. Obsolete.
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OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 282 An getitelod [c1225 Worcester ititeled] ī getacnað on [read an] þusend, and twegen ias getitelode [OE Julius getitolode], īī, getacniað twa þusend.
2. Having a title of a specified kind or nature. As the second element in a parasynthetic compound or modified by an adverb.
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?1544 J. Bale Epist. Exhortatorye sig. A.viijv Great is the diligence, labour, and stodye of his whoryshe apostataes, holye Apostels I shuld saye, as are both the olde and newe tytled Bysshoppes.
1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. ii. sig. D2 O more vnciuill, more vnnaturall, Then those base-titled creatures that looke downe-ward.
1675 H. Danvers 2nd Reply in Def. Treat. Baptism 267 There is lately published his mock-titled virulent book More Proofs of Infants Churchmembership.
1834 London Lit. Gaz. 25 Jan. 59/2 Among so many high-titled, dignified, official, and capital-lettered personages, it may be presumed that all are not equally mere patrons.
1941 Motor Boating July 88 A host of other impressively titled Teutonic diplomats had been frequent passengers.
2007 Nottngham Evening Post (Nexis) 18 Jan. 14 You know my feelings about Big Brother and its offshoot, the ironically titled ‘Celebrity’ Big Brother.
3.
a. Having a title (in various senses of title n.), as opposed to being untitled or titleless.
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a1591 H. Smith Gods Arrowe (1593) sig. E3v It is true that the Heathen did honour such men..with their titled gods.
1607 J. Marston What you Will ii. i My spaniel slept, whilst I bausd leaves,..por'd on the old print Of titled wordes.
1661 J. P. Propositions to Pope (single sheet) Your divers Fryars Garments, and Titled Orders, your observations of Dayes, and Meats, your Pennance and Processions are not of God.
1786 Minutes offered by Warren Hastings: Pt. II 4 The Charge consists of Eight titled Chapters or Divisions.
1812 J. Baillie Orra i. i, in Ser. of Plays III. 7 Thou would'st not have me to a Dame like this, With rich domains and titled rights encompass'd.
1909 Mexican Mining Jrnl. July 14/2 An annual federal tax..is imposed on all titled claims.
1955 Philos. Rev. 64 537 It is divided into titled chapters and sections, as in conventional learned works.
2003 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 1 Apr. 23 Wood Green fielded eight titled players including six grandmasters.
b. spec. Having a title used before or instead of one's name, indicating high social class or rank; of aristocratic status or heritage. Cf. title n. 5b.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [adjective] > having or relating to a title
titular1601
titulary1603
titled1690
society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [adjective] > having a title of rank
titled1690
1690 N. Lee Massacre of Paris v. i. 43 Thou Traytor! Murderer! Ravisher! Oh thou titled Villany! In Purple dipt to give a gloss to mischief!
1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless II. x. 114 What a pity it is you did not shine in the front to-night? By my soul you would have out-dazzled all the titled prudes about you.
1790 F. Burney Diary Aug. (1842) V. 150 The titled part of the females were admitted to the Royal table.
1824 London Mechanics' Reg. 20 Nov. 38/1 Brutal slaves, who are screened from justice..to gratify the pride and domination of titled game-preserving despots.
1909 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 25/2 A younger scion of a titled family.
1978 B. Arnold Singer at Wedding i. 21 Lady Cavendish was the first titled lady to whom I had been introduced in this way.
2001 C. Madhavan Paddy Indian ii. 11 She was the daughter of a Diwan—a titled person—and an only child.
B. n.
With the and plural agreement. People who have titles of high social rank, such as peerages or knighthoods, as a class.
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1697 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Ingenious Lett.: Trav. Spain (ed. 4) ix. 166 I will not neglect telling you, that a thousand People here, have their Canopys; for without reckoning the Princes and the Dukes, the Titled (of which there is a vast number) have theirs also.
1785 Quaker III. xxvii. 117 The titled and the untitled,..the lettered and the unlettered, peers and plebeians, are all indiscriminately jumbled together.
1867 D. Maccoll Among the Masses vi. 188 We forget that most of the men that move and rule the world are not rising from among the titled and the rich and the schoolmen, but from the bulk of the people.
1971 D. Du Maurier Way of Cross in Don't look Now (U.S. ed.) 234 He had observed the vicar on board, forever moving amongst the more affluent of the passengers, hobnobbing with the titled, invariably at his ease.
2017 @john1genius 20 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Tory idea of a balanced budget,..robbing poor honest people to suck up to the titled.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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