entitulate

present singular third person entitulates · participle present entitulating · participle past entitulated · past entitulated

1. alternativeAlternative form of intitulate.

   If we provide ourselves with about a Selibra or half pound of the Cheese, entitulated Duplex Glocestrius, or Double Gloucester; […]

   1847, [William Makepeace] Thackeray; Albert [Richard] Smith; Gilbert [Abbott] a Beckett; the Brothers Mayhew [i.e., Horace Mayhew; Henry Mayhew], “Sir Thomas Brown on Welsh Rabbits. Being a Continuation of His “Inquiries into Vulgar and Common Errors.””, in The Comic Almanack: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities, second series (1844–1853), London: John Camden Hotten, […]; New York, N.Y.: Scribner, Welford and Co., published 1853, page 169

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   Mr. Chanſellor and hee do not agree very well; they fell outt very lately about the entitulating ſome letters for forraine partes; […]

   1655 May 16, William Armeror, “An intercepted letter”, in Thomas Birch, A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, Esq; […], volume III (Containing Papers from December MDCLIV to September MDCLV), London: […] [T]he Executor of the late Mr. Fletcher Gyles; Thomas Woodward, […]; And Charles Davis, […], published 1742, page 425

   Four ſeveral Declarations of the preſent Parliament have entitulated the ſubject to them, and to the benefit of the ordinary Courts of Juſtice, as their Birthright.

   a. 1660, John Bradshaw, A True Relation of the Proceedings, Examination, Tryal and Horrid Murder of Col. Eusebius Andrewe, London: […] Francis Buckley […] Daniel Pakeman, […], published 1660, page 44

   The Favourers of Prelates, and Patrons of Clergy-men will blame us for not entitulating the Biſhops Moſt Godly, Moſt Holy, and ſuch like Epithets, &c. but ſeeing I am able to prove and juſtifie out of ancient Writers, that the ſervant hath in this Bork called his Maſter no otherwiſe than after his Chriſtian Name, I will lay aſide thoſe lofty titles, &c.

   1662, Lux Matutina: or, Some Beams and Dawnings of Early Light Breaking Forth of Ancient History, Discovering the Judgement and Practice of the Primitive Times in Reference to Ceremonies and Church-Discipline, [London]: [s.n.], page 26

   We wish that space would allow some of these “gems of purest ray serene” to glitter on our pages, but we cannot give them all room, and a selection would be invidious to the merits of the others. Yet we grieve that one “pome” entitulated “The Bells” should be lost to the world. ’Tis a mighty conception and powerfully executed.

   1859 October, “Editor’s Table”, in The Ichnolite. Amherst Collegiate Magazine., Amherst: G. L. Goodale, L. S. Griggs, H. Bullard,—[…]. Metcalf & Company, […], Northampton, page 103

   If they had not the courage or the sense to entitulate the correspondence as “Piratical attack of Her Majesty’s ship Algerine on thirteen Chinese trading junks,” at all events they might have put on the title page that which is to be found in the contents: “Attack by Her Majesty’s Ship Algerine on thirteen Chinese Trading Junks off Namoa Harbour.”

   1869 June 2, “Events of the Month”, in The Diplomatic Review (Free Press), edition containing articles in French, from January, 1866, to July, 1870, book IV (Contains Volumes XIV. to XVIII.), volume XVII, number 6, London: Office of “The Diplomatic Review,” […], published 1881, page 82, column 2