titularyadv.adj.n.

1534 in J. Imrie et al. Burgh Court Bk. Selkirk (1960) 143 This inquest..fyndis that all thir gudis vndervryting ar tutulary the gudis of ayrschip of umquhill maister James Jonsone.

1586 J. Prime Expos. St. Paul to Galathians iv. 161 A titularie image of Christ.

1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 90 The triall by battaile..was in criminall matters with sharpe weapons, but in titulary matters with blunt weapons.

a1693 Disc. Tenures in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 89 To embrace a vain and titulary conceit of land continuing a name, intimateth Paganism rather then Christianity.

1790 G. Davis St. Monday 7 I strive to paint The vot'ries of my titulary Saint [i.e. Saint Monday].

1826 H. Cole tr. M. Luther Select Wks. IV. 111 This noun, ‘Michtham’, has been variously handled. This titulary inscription, according to Augustine, is of an antiquated nature.

1855 E. Braun Handbk. Ruins & Museums of Rome vii. 453 The titulary inscription on the socle has been effaced at the place where the most important letter of the name commences.

2009 F. Ghillebaert Disguise in George Sand's Novels ii. 61 The scenes do not constitute the core of the novels, but they do help shape the titulary characters' identities.

1587 Def. Honorable Sentence Queene of Scots ii. sig. C2 Mary of Scotland..beeing also but a titularie Queen in her own land.

1606 G. W. tr. Epit. Liues Emperors in tr. Justinus Hist. sig. Ll2 The first action that Adolphus count of Nassau titularie Emperor vndertooke.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 93 The titulary Earle of Desmond, could neuer after draw 100. men together.

1731 L. Theobald Orestes i. iii. 14 Sarmatia's widow'd, titulary Queen.

1797 Earl of Malmesbury Disp. 11 July in Diaries & Corr. (1844) III. 386 The title of King of France..was merely titulary.

1846 Herald of Peace Jan. 350/2 Very many more than are now titulary members of Peace Societies, will cease to patronise any work..which does not..‘seek peace’.

1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 157 Stephan Evadi Assemani..was titulary archbishop of Apamaea in Syria.

1903 Times 27 Nov. 5/1 As founder and titulary head of the group Baron d'Estournelles de Constant presided.

2009 Brattleboro (Vermont) Reformer (Nexis) 28 May Four..were employees, one a relative of an employee, one a relative of a vendor and a titulary official of a business group.

1603 H. Crosse Vertues Common-wealth sig. D1 What is all this worlds pompe, or titulary preferments, if not atchieued by Vertue?

1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. i. 41 Not regarding these titulary circumstances [It. titolari circonstance], he hoped his cousin would be his good friend and Lord.

1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials I. ii. 35 The King seemed to boast much of this Titulary Honour bestowed upon him so solemnly by the Pope and Cardinals.

1775 Crit. Rev. Jan. 8 Those few personages who have adorned titulary honours with a distinction more splendid..than the possession of a coronet.

1804 ‘E. de Acton’ Tale without Title II. 129 If any man values a titulary distinction.

1935 E. L. Sabin Kit Carson Days (rev. ed.) II. xxxix. 541 Commodore Stockton carefully conserved his titulary rank of commander-in-chief and civil governor in this province which he claimed by debatable conquest.

1625 A. Darcie tr. P. de Bellegent in tr. W. Camden Hist. Elizabeth French Ep. Ded. sig. a2^v Pallas, whom the Athenians took for their titulary goddesse, because she presided in peace as well as in warre.

1732 W. Collier Congratulatory Poem 11 In George, our Titulary Saint, They point a life in public action spent.

1879 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 25 Dec. 4/3 He is the titulary saint of a multitude of churches throughout Catholic Europe.

1949 A. Manhattan Vatican in World Politics iii. 32 The cardinals have their titulary Church in Rome.

2016 F. Pomarici in K. Sisson & A. A. Larson Compan. Medieval Papacy iv. 86 The other pope, on the left of the titulary saint, is most likely one of Honorius' successors who completed the basilica.

?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome i. xliv. 173 Titularies [Fr. Titulaires] in offices of form, who haue it by inheritance.

1679 tr. Coll. Acts, Memorials, & Lett. Nimeguen xxv. 200 Hereafter, no Administrators shall be sent on either side to govern the said Benefices, and receive the profits thereof; which shall not be enjoyed but by Titularies, Lawfully provided.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 190 Persons..deputed for the Celebration of these Masses..were neither Titularies, nor perpetual Curates; but Persons entirely conductitious.

1792 Walker's Hibernian Mag. Sept. 266/2 False titularies, destitute of all canonical appointment.

1805 Sketch Present State France 14 In case of indisposition, absence, or legitimate hindrance, he is replaced by another titulary of a grand dignity of the empire.

1846 tr. M. La Châtre Public & Private Hist. Popes of Rome I. 332/1 Humphrey, the new chancellor of Henry the Black, the titulary of the See of Milan.

1930 P. E. Corbett Rom. Law of Marriage iii. 80 The position assigned to the husband as titulary of manus.

1986 McGill Law Jrnl. 32 54 The titulary of a security contractually..renounces his rights vis-à-vis certain defendants.

2013 R. Valsan in L. Smith Worlds of Trust x. 496 Real or personal rights, actual or eventual rights, rights on the titulary's things or on the property of another.

1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. II. xiii. 243 Their..influence, and..character, place them..above the titularies of our country, be the rank what it may.

1894 J. H. Breasted tr. A. Erman Egyptian Gram. 37* The titulary [Ger. Titulatur] of the new ruler.

1920 D. McFayden Hist. Title Imperator under Rom. Empire vi. 67 After Diocletian the Cognomen Imperatoris disappeared from the imperial titulary.

1991 J. M. Russell Sennacherib's Palace without Rival at Nineveh xi. 242 Sennacherib evidently took his titulary seriously.

2013 Bull. Amer. Schools Oriental Res. No. 369 13/2 In his [sc. Akhenaten's] titulary.., both his nb.ty and ‘Golden Horus’ names pay homage to Karnak and Southern Heliopolis.