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intitule, v.|ɪnˈtɪtjuːl| Also 5–8 en-. [a. OF. en-, intituler (1285 in Godef. Compl.), mod.F. intituler, ad. late L. intitulāre (Rufinus c 400), f. in- (in-2) + titulus title. Cf. entitle.] 1. trans. To furnish (a book or document) with a heading or superscription; to give a designation to (a book, etc.); = entitle 1. Now chiefly used technically in reference to Acts of Parliament.
1490Caxton Eneydos Prol. 10 This present boke compyled by virgyle Intytuled Eneydos. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 5 A sheete of printed paper, entytuled Of the newe founde landes. 1591Spenser Ruines Time Ded., This small Poeme, intituled by a generall name of The Worlds Ruines. 1648Art. Peace c. 14 An Act..Intituled, An Exemplanation of the Act made in a Session of this Parliament for [etc.]. 1727Swift Poison. E. Curll Wks. 1755 III. i. 148 A satyrical piece, entituled Court Poems. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §27 A book..entituled The Storm. 1866Whittier Marg. Smith's Jrnl. Prose Wks. 1889 I. 65 It proved to be a Latin Treatise, by a famous Papist, intituled, ‘The Imitation of Christ’. Mod. Notice, Pursuant to the Statute of 22nd and 23rd Vic. cap. 35 intituled ‘An Act to further Amend the Law of Property and to relieve Trustees’ [etc.]. †b. To ascribe (a book) to a person as its author; = entitle 1 c. Obs.
a1555Latimer Serm. & Rem. (Parker Soc.) 283 The book is open to be read, and is entituled to one which is Bishop of Gloucester. 1559Homilies i. Faith i. (1859) 37 Written in a book intituled to be of Didymus Alexandrinus. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 60/2 These decretall epistles suspiciously intituled to the names of the fathers of the primitive church. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 208 Whether it be rightly intituled to him, I will not contende. †c. To prefix to a book the name of a person as its patron to whom it is dedicated; = dedicate v. 3, with construction inverted. Obs.
1664Evelyn tr. Freart's Archit. Ep. Ded., I intituled Your Majesty to a Work. 1677W. Hubbard Narrative Pref., The entituling so many names of worth to the patronage of so small and inconsiderable a Volume. 1691tr. Emilianne's Observ. Journ. Naples Ded. A iv a. †2. To dedicate to by name or title; to name after some one. Obs.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 235 b/1 Thys moneth of Auguste..The peple entituled it to hys name & callyd it Augustus. 1667Decay Chr. Piety xvi. ⁋4 He refutes their factions entituling themselves to Paul and Apollos. 1707J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. iii. iv. 288 The Society [of the Garter] is entituled to St. George. 3. To give a (specified) title or designation to; = entitle 2. arch.
1568Grafton Chron. II. 743 The Lady Elizabeth, entituled Dolphinesse of Vien. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xxv. §2 Our Lord himselfe hath..sanctified his own Temple, by entituling it the house of Prayer. 1601Holland Pliny I. 117 Where be nations entituled with many and sundry names. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. iv. (1739) 9 The Romans intituled the Coasts of Norfolk and Suffolk the Saxons Coasts. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. ii, Enough that they who made the ring intituled the scene a ‘mill’ [= pugilistic encounter]. †b. With inverted construction: To give as a title or designation (to something.) Obs. (Cf. 5.)
a1654Selden Table-t. (Arb.) 112 The Third Person is made of his own Frenzy, Malice, Ignorance and Folly, by the Roundhead (to all these the Spirit is intituled). †4. To furnish (a person) with a ‘title’ to an estate. Hence gen. to give (a person or thing) a rightful claim to a possession, privilege, designation, etc., or to be, have, or do something; = entitle 4. Obs.
1584D. Powel Lloyd's Cambria 237 Every one is intituled to the name of Bardh. 1642tr. Perkins' Prof. Bk. v. §383. 166 She was once entituled to have dower. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. vi. iii. 317 The insuing story intituleth it self to as much probability as any other. 1670Baxter Cure Ch. Div. 112 The profession of Christianity which entituleth men to Church Communion. a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. III (1845) II. x. 230 Our merchants at home had..asked less for themselves than they were intituled to. †b. To invest with an office, function, etc.; = entitle 4 c. Obs.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1862) 307 The Monks..seeing that they themselves could not prevaile intituled their Archbishop Edmund. 1600Holland Livy 356 As if the Patritij were entirely alone intituled and invested in the prerogative of Sacerdotall Dignities. †c. To furnish with a title to ordination; = entitle 4 b. Obs.
1720White Monit. Clergy Peterb. i. 16 Persons so intituled to any Curacy, shall actually enjoy the Right and immediate Possession of it. †5. trans. To represent (something) as the cause of a particular action or effect. (Const. to.) = entitle 5. Obs. (The converse of b.)
1663J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 377 So neither may we infer the sin from the punishment, intituling some great evil of sin to such a great evil of suffering. 1706De Foe Jure Div. v. 21 note, Some People are very fond of intituling the Glory and Honour of God to all their Actions, and to pretend to act for him. †b. To impute or ascribe to; = entitle 5 c.
1651Hobbes Govt. & Soc. iii. §32. 56 The bad actions, which please them, are ever entituled to some Vertue. Hence inˈtituling vbl. n.
1523Fitzherb. Surv. Prol., A boke in parchement, bearyng a certayne date, after the maner and forme as I shall make an intytulynge. |