titulusn.

1681 H. Dodwell Reply Mr. Baxter's Pretended Confut. 303 This multitude of Priests was not accommodated to their extraordinary meetings in houses occasionally, but their solemn appointed places for Parochial Assemblies, for such were the Tituli or Basilicae.

1711 J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ III. viii. i. 117 He appointed Twenty-five Tituli in Rome, for the convenience of baptizing new Converts.

1848 B. Webb Sketches Continental Ecclesiol. 558 The population has been drained off to the Campus Martius, leaving these churches lonely in the midst of the accumulated ruins of centuries;..but they are still the tituli of the cardinals, and still enjoy revenues.

1908 Rosary Mag. Jan. 98/1 About the third century it became the custom to attach a suburban cemetery to each titulus in the city.

2007 M. Gerhart & F. E. Udoh Christianity Reader viii. 439/4 Each titulus is assigned to one of the cardinals of the Roman Church as his title church.

1844 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 1840–4 2 253 Of the four inscriptions found at Philadelphia, the most remarkable was a fragment of a titulus, which, in all probability, had been inscribed on the pedestal of a statue of the eunuch Eutropius.

1889 Harper's Mag. Aug. 333/1 The upper cross-piece is evidently a development of the titulus , and the lower that of the rest for the feet.

1927 A. H. McNeile Introd. N.T. 10 There was a deep irony in the mockery by the soldiers, and in the titulus on the Cross.

1963 Notes & Queries May 166/2 The best-known type [of ‘illustrated’ poem] is the inscription-poem used as a titulus, carved or painted on tombs or the walls of buildings.

2002 G. Sarfatti et al. in M. Ciatti & M. Seidel Giotto: Santa Maria Novella Crucifix 197/1 The level of execution in the titulus of the Padua Crucifix seems in general inferior: the letters are not well arranged, strokes differ in form and size.