v. [f. L. titul-āre to title: cf. INTITULE.] Occasional variant of TITLE v., esp. in pa. pple. or ppl. adj. Tituled.
In quot. 1569 app. To set down in writing: cf. TITLE v.1
1569. Abp. Parker, Lett. to Sir W. Cecil, 3 June (Lansd. MS. 11, lf. 128). Onys at the request of my L. of leycestre, I tituled to hym my phantasie, from the wch I do not moche disagre at this tyme.
1588. Parke, trans. Mendozas Hist. China, 277. He asked what those letters did signifie that were tituled ouer his head.
1591. Nashe, Prognost., Wks. (Grosart), II. 155. Diuers selfe conceited fooles tituling themselues by the names of Martinistes.
1635. Heywood, Hierarch., VII. 463. This is tituled by the name of Principate.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., II. ii. § 107. A great Council (for so it is tituled) was held at Becanceld by Withred, King of Kent.
1894. Daily News, 16 June, 6/1. The foreign favouritism which was tituled one of the most real and serious grievances of those times.