titulary
Americanadjective
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titularies
plural
Etymology
Origin of titulary
Example Sentences
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It remains to see whether they will leave to the nobility any thing but their titulary appellations.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
A benefice was then a sort of patrimony which the titulary, old or ill, often handed over to one of his relatives.
From The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by John Durand
The last official document signed by Mgr. de Laval as titulary bishop was an addition to the statutes and rules which he had previously drawn up for the Chapter of the city of Champlain.
From The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval by Adrien Leblond de Brumath
The titulary counsellor117 Shchekatikhin, who conducted him to the place of his exile, Kurghan, in the south of Siberia, showed a great reverence to all the churches which they passed by.
From A Treatise on Relics by John Calvin
The constitution of 1791, it is true, made the king the titulary head of the executive power; but the internal administration of the kingdom was not actually in his hands.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various
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