intitulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intitulates
form: intitulating
form: intitulated
form: intitulated
form: entitulate
Etymology: From Late Latin intitulātus, past participle of intitulāre, whence intitule and entitle (obsolete intitle).
Senses: examples: text: […] theſe five hundred yeeres (of whom he names abundance) have taught that all Paſtors be they intitulated Biſhops or Prieſts have equall authority and power by the Word of God, […]
ref: [1654], Smectymnuus [pseudonym], A Vindication of the Answer to the Humble Remonstrance from the Unjust Imputation of Frivolousnesse and Falshood. Wherein, the Cause of Liturgy and Episcopacy Is Further Debated., London: […] Iohn Rothwell […], page 59:
text: On the other hand, not a few of ’em all along ſhew’d no little warmth of affection to Papiſts, intitulating them to the ſame God, and Heaven with themſelves, and aſſerting their neighbourhood and conjunction to be infinitely more eligible than that of theſe whom they-call’d Phanaticks, as appears, for inſtance, in a printed Sermon of Mr Mcqueen.
ref: 1697, William Jameson, Nazianzeni Querela et Votum Justum. The Fundamentals of the Hierarchy Examin‘d and Disprov‘d: […]., Glasgow: […] Robert Sanders, for the Author, page 101:
text: […] turning over their books, debating and disputing with them, and pricking down, or intitulating in his descriptive tablets all that most pleased him; […]
ref: 1832, Patrick Fraser Tytler, Lives of Scottish Worthies, volume II, London: John Murray, […], page 193:
text: I am well aware that a pleasant and instructive magazine like that given by Mr. Bentley to an admiring public once a month, is most extensively perused—and, as much love and a little murder has been committed already, and of course, some more may be expected, there can be no doubt that a large section of its readers belong to that order which Burns so happily intitulates “the master pieces of creation.”
ref: 1847, [William Hamilton Maxwell], “Brian O’Linn; or, Luck Is Everything”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XXI, London: Richard Bentley, […], chapter XX (Dine at Verrey’s.—Adventure in the Park.—“The Fortune of War”—Mary Hargrave.—Meeting of congenial spirits.), page 152:
text: Q. The same, page 229, see if this is a correct translation: “[…] And as it was evidently necessary for the reception of any order, even minor ones, to be intitulated in a church, so also was it necessary for the reception of minor orders to be ordained with the title of benefice; whence it was that anciently all clerics, even minor ones, were intitulated;[…]”
ref: 1881, Compendium of Civil and Canon Law in the Case of Rev. P. M. Sheehan versus Rt. Rev. John Tuigg, Bishop of Pittsburgh. […], page 179:
text: A little incident occurred during the administration of the Oath for the security of the Church of Scotland which showed that the young Queen [Victoria] was not disposed to be overawed by her Ministers. When she had occasion to recapitulate the title of an old Act of Parliament in which the word “intitulated” was used instead of “entitled,” Lord Melbourne, standing by her side, said, “Entitled, please, your Majesty.” She turned quickly towards him with a look of surprise, and looking again at the paper repeated in a louder voice, “An Act intitulated.”
ref: [1897, Sarah A[nne] Tooley, The Personal Life of Queen Victoria, 2nd edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, […], page 72:
text: They paid a scribe for “intitulating” them in their Journal Book, and engrossing them on a vellum roll.
ref: 1896, Amy Mary Straton, “Introduction”, in Henry James Fowle Swayne, Churchwardens’ Accounts of S. Edmund & S. Thomas, Sarum, 1443-1702, with Other Documents, Salisbury: […] Bennett Brothers, […], page xxiv:
text: Sir,—I beg to transmit to you, as a competent authority to pronounce on its appositeness, a proposition to subserve the present and prospective intitulating of streets, squares, etc., throughout the capital (cities, boroughs, and environs inclusive) for distinctive guidance.
ref: 1898, St. Martin’s-Le-Grand, page 337:
text: The modern scientist would not think of intitulating a treatise on relativity “Commentary on Einstein.”
ref: 1947, George Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science, volumes III (Science and Learning in the Fourteenth Century), Baltimore, Md.: […] for the Carnegie Institution of Washington by The Williams & Wilkins Company, page 80:
text: It is hardly possible that he should be identical with the ‘Jheronimus liefeling Weenensis ex Austria’, who matriculated in Louvain on August 2, 1536, for he was one of a group of four, intitulating together, namely, ‘Ludouicus Carinus de lucerna helueticus (viz., Louis Kiel: cp. I, 392-93, ii, 26-28, &c), Erasmus hadenreich œnipontanus ex ciuitate berolis & Matheus herman augustanus’, — no doubt the master on a tour throughout Western Europe with three of his disciples: LibIntIV, 87, c.
ref: 1954, Henry de Vocht, History of the Foundation and the Rise of the Collegium Trilingue Lovaniense, 1517-1550: The Full Growth, Louvain: Librairie Universitaire; Ch. Uystpruyst, […], page 242:
glosses: To entitle.