Titular

['tɪtjʊlə] or ['tɪtʃəlɚ]

Definition

(adj.) of or associated with or bearing a title signifying nobility; 'titular dignitaries' .

(adj.) of or pertaining to the title of a work of art; 'performed well in the titular (or title) role'; 'the titular theme of the book' .

(adj.) of or bearing a title signifying status or function; 'of titular rank' .

(adj.) of or relating to a legal title to something; 'titulary rights' .

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Definition

(a.) Existing in title or name only; nominal; having the title to an office or dignity without discharging its appropriate duties; as, a titular prince.

(n.) A titulary.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Nominal, titulary, only in name.

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Definition

adj. existing in name or title only: nominal: having the title without the duties of an office.—n. one who enjoys the bare title of an office without the actual possession of that office: a person invested with a title in virtue of which he holds a benefice whether he performs its duties or not.—n. Titular′ity.—adv. Tit′ularly.—adj. Tit′ulary consisting in or pertaining to a title.—n. one having the title of an office whether he performs its duties or not.—Titular bishop in R.C. usage a bishop without a diocese taking his title from a place where there is no longer a bishop's see as in the countries once conquered by Crusaders in the East—before 1882 called 'bishop in partibus infidelium;' Titular church one of the parish churches of Rome supplying a title to cardinal-priests; Titular of a church that from which a church takes its special name—distinguished from a patron who must be a canonised person or an angel; Titulars of the tithes laymen invested with church lands after the Reformation in Scotland.

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