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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Titular \Tit"u*lar\, a. [F. titulaire, fr. L. titulus. See Title.] Existing in title or name only; nominal; having the title to an office or dignity without discharging its appropriate duties; as, a titular prince.
If these magnificent titles yet remain
Not merely titular.
--Milton.
Titular bishop. See under Bishop.
Titular \Tit"u*lar\, n. A titulary. [R.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from or based on Middle French titulaire (16c.), from Latin titulus (see title) + -ar. Related: Titulary.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, relating to, being, derived from, or having a title. 2 Existing in name only; nominal. 3 (context proscribed English) Named or referred to in the title. n. One who holds a title.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to a legal title to something; "titulary rights" [syn: titulary]
of or associated with or bearing a title signifying nobility; "of titular rank"
derived from a title; "performed well in the titular (or title) role"; "the titular theme of the book"
of or associated with or bearing a title signifying status or function; "titular dignitaries"
being such in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party" [syn: nominal]
Wikipedia
Titular means existing in title and may refer to:
- Titular (Catholicism), a cardinal who holds a titulus, one of the main churches of Rome
In Roman Catholicism, a titular is a cardinal who holds a titulus, one of the main churches of Rome. Such holders were initially by tradition native-born Romans (of high social standing). The first church in Rome to have a non-Italian titular was Santi Quattro Coronati: Dietrich of Trier was appointed titular in 975 by Pope Benedict VII. That basilica was originally Titulus Aemilianae, drawing its name in characteristic fashion from its foundress, who doubtless owned the extensive suburban Roman villa whose foundations remain under the church and whose audience hall became the ecclesiastical basilica. The term also applies to the holder of a titular see, which is a nominal (often former) episcopal or archiepiscopal see without an actual pastoral flock which confers the rank of titular (arch)bishop on its incumbent.
Usage examples of "titular".
Corrupt, wise, weary old Earth fought with masked weapons, since only hidden weapons could maintain so ancient a sovereigntysovereignty which had long since lapsed into a titular paramountcy among the communities of mankind.
Burnet, the typical Whig, had protested against such limitations as should quite change the form of our government, and render the crown titular and precarious.
I have smiled to think how grand his magnificent titular appendages sounded in his own ears and what a feeble tintinnabulation they made in mine.
Indeed, the English king, George III, in 1763 forbade colonization--as Louis XIV at one time had wished to prevent it--beyond the Alleghany Mountains without his special permission, and, moreover, it was hardly more than ten years after the titular transfer to England that the colonists declared themselves independent.
If such was the poverty of Laodicea, what must have been the wealth of those cities, whose claim appeared preferable, and particularly of Pergamus, of Smyrna, and of Ephesus, who so long disputed with each other the titular primacy of Asia?
Meanwhile, he would have the drama produced in its original tongue at Strasburg, then a French city conveniently near the German border, with Albert Niemann in the titular role and an orchestra from Karlsruhe, or some other German city which had an opera-house.
They were men of stature and fine countenance, proud of the titular primacy that belonged to them because it was the Onondaga, Hiawatha, who had formed the great confederacy more than four hundred years before our day, or just about the time Columbus was landing on the shores of the New World.
The occasion was a reception of the New Orleans Consistory, Knights of Columbus, to welcome His Eminence John Patrick Mulcahy, titular archbishop of Swengchan, China, to the Crescent City.
But as Sibylla died without issue during the siege of Acre, Isabella, her younger sister, put in her claim to that titular kingdom, and required Lusignan to resign his pretensions to her husband, Conrade, marquis of Montferrat.
But it was plate armor by only the thinnest definition of the term and left more of the titular anatomy exposed than it protected.
As for Beulah, her feelings were so simple and sincere, that they were even beyond the ordinary considerations of delicacy, and she took precisely the same liberties with her titular, as she would have done with a natural sister.
The titular dignities of Mr Lammas must be dropped, for they are now out of place in a world in which they have no meaning.
The mother was impatient to know what the duke would think of her daughter, for she had destined her from her childhood to serve the pleasures of this voluptuous prince, who, though he had a titular mistress, was fond of experimenting with all the ballet-girls who took his fancy.
Thayendanegea was the great war chief of the Mohawks, but not their titular chief.
Rutherford was strongly impressed with the belief that his father had, by a form of process peculiar to the law of Scotland, purchased these teinds from the titular, and, therefore, that the present prosecution was groundless.