sb. Obs. [Sp., pa. pple. of titular to title; = L. titulātus.]
1. A titled Spaniard or Portuguese; a man of title.
1609. Tuvill, Vade-mecum (1629), 16. Such as the puffe-past Tituladoe’s of these our times.
1622. Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., I. II. v. 138. Any Knight or Titulado.
1659. Rushw., Hist. Coll., I. 77. Attended and served with Grandees and Tituladoes.
1751. Affecting Narr. of Wager, 143. Accompanied by no less than a Brasilian Titulado.
2. A thing that has only a nominal existence.
1659. Ant. Land-Mark betw. Prince & People, 15. Meer Tituladoes, Shaddows, or aiery Notions.
1679. V. 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 † Titulado v. Obs., trans. to title, entitle; to decorate with a grandiose title.
1663. Flagellum or O. Cromwell (1672), 84. Cromwel was … tituladoed with the Style of Lord Governor of Ireland.
