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‖ titulado, n. Obs.|tituˈlado|
[Sp., pa. pple. of titular to title; = L. titulātus.]
1. A titled Spaniard or Portuguese; a man of title.
1609Tuvill Vade-mecum (1629) 16 Such as the puffe-past Tituladoe's of these our times. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. ii. v. 138 Any Knight or Titulado. 1659Rushw. Hist. Coll. I. 77 Attended and served with Grandees and Tituladoes. 1751Affecting Narr. of Wager 143 Accompanied by no less than a Brasilian Titulado.
2. A thing that has only a nominal existence.
1659Ant. Land-Mark betw. Prince & People 15 Meer Tituladoes, Shaddows, or aiery Notions. 1679V. Alsop Melius Inquir. ii. 310 Whilst they deck his Atchievements with Titulado's, useless and cumbersome Regalities,..for thus it has been ever the way of Church-men to sell shadows for substances.
Hence † tituˈlado v. Obs., trans. to title, entitle; to decorate with a grandiose title.
1663Flagellum or O. Cromwell (1672) 84 Cromwel was..tituladoed with the Style of Lord Governor of Ireland. |