单词 | titulado |
释义 | † tituladon. Obsolete. 1. A Spanish or Portuguese nobleman; (sometimes) spec. one of a lower rank than a grandee. Cf. grandee n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [noun] > person of > man of rank herOE man of statec1330 peera1375 man of goodc1390 sira1400 titulado1622 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. ii. v. 138 Any Knight or Titulado [Sp. titulado]. 1659 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. 77 Attended and served with Grandees and Tituladoes. 1751 Affecting Narr. H.M.S. Wager 143 Accompanied by no less than a Brasilian Titulado. a1778 R. Muller Mem. Lord Viscount Cherington (1782) I. xi. 102 The Fidalgos..are not classed in the high degree of nobility like the Titulados or Grandees. 1838 London Q. Rev. June 60/1 A grandee may put four mules before and four footmen behind his carriage, while a titulado of Castille is restricted to a humble pair of bipeds and quadrupeds. 2. Chiefly depreciative. Any titled person.Frequently with the mocking implication that the person's title is grandiose or bogus (cf. titulado v.). Cf. hogen mogen n. 1. ΚΠ 1629 D. Tuvill Vade Mecum (new ed.) 16 Such as the puffe-past Tituladoe's of these our times. 1674 P. Whalley Relig. Established 21 It [sc. the Council of Trent] consisted of Tituladoe's, Beardless boys, old flatterers. 1700 Char. Whig 37 Coaching it from Taverns to Eating-houses, and thrusting himself into the company of Titulado's at the Price of Paying all the Reckoning. 1767 London Chron. 27 June You, Sir..have characterised him, as if a modern Patriot, or vain Titulado, as honest and upright as those Gentry sometimes have been. 3. depreciative. A title which exists in name only and confers no real power or responsibility on the holder; a petty or insignificant title.Usually with reference to a title of rank, but sometimes (e.g. in quot. 1659) with reference to a legal right (see title n. 12). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [noun] > unsubstantiality or lack of substance > something lacking substance > a thing existing in name only nominala1625 titulado1659 nominality1842 nominis umbrac1874 unobtainium1956 1659 Antient Land-mark betwixt Prince & People 15 Meer Tituladoes, Shaddows, or aiery Notions. 1663 Life & Death J. Turner 9 Many are upon this account apt to believe, that..he might dignifie himself with the Titulado of a Colonel. 1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum ii. vi. 254 Whilst they deck his Atchievements, with Titulado's..useless and cumbersome Regalities,..for thus it has ever been the..way of Church-men to sell shadows for substances. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † tituladov. depreciative. Obsolete. transitive. To confer on (a person) a title which is bogus or grandiose, or exists in name only. Cf. titulado n. 2, 3. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > raising to noble rank > ennoble [verb (transitive)] > invest with rank or title dubc1330 creea1400 create?1457 dignify1570 title1609 titulado1663 insignize1678 1663 H. J. Hist. Life & Death Pope Joane 14 A hundred Popes Nephews, though they be such as Cæsar Borgia was to Alexander the sixth, his own natural Sonne, tituladoed with that distanced degree of Relation. 1663 J. Heath Flagellum (1672) 84 Cromwel was..tituladoed with the Style of Lord Governor of Ireland. 1663 Last Will & Test. Cardinal Mazarini 86 He died wealthy and rich, seized of severall Governments and Offices and Titulado'd with Dignities and Secular Honours. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019). < |
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