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  • noun Plural form of titular.

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Examples

  • Thus all citizens, even Protestants, Jews, and nominal Catholics, might name titulars to ecclesiastical offices, and the first obligation of priests and bishops was to take an oath of fidelity to the Constitution which denied to the Holy See any effective power over the Church.

    Genocide in the Vendee de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Thus all citizens, even Protestants, Jews, and nominal Catholics, might name titulars to ecclesiastical offices, and the first obligation of priests and bishops was to take an oath of fidelity to the Constitution which denied to the Holy See any effective power over the Church.

    Archive 2007-08-12 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • Protestants, Jews, and nominal Catholics, might name titulars to ecclesiastical offices, and the first obligation of priests and bishops was to take an oath of fidelity to the Constitution which denied to the Holy See any effective power over the Church.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • The whole thugogmagog, including the portions under — stood to be oddmitted as the results of the respective titulars neglecting to produce themselves, to be wound up for an after-enactment by a Magnificent Transformation Scene showing the

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Bannatyne, secretary to John Knox, recounts a singular course of oppression practised on one of those titulars abbots, by the Earl of

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • Was he requiting Cyriacus for his extraordinary charity by telling him that, in commemoration of it, a portion of the immense pile which they were toiling to raise would be dedicated to God under his invocation, become a title, and close its line of titulars by an illustrious name?

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • Mr. R---- d of Bowland, a gentleman of landed property in the vale of Gala, was prosecuted for a very considerable sum, the accumulated arrears of teind (or tithe) for which he was said to be indebted to a noble family, the titulars (lay impropriators of the tithes.)

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 375, June 13, 1829 Various

  • Of the sixteen titulars quoted by Lequien (I, 631) the most worthy of notice is St. Eustathius, a confessor under the Iconoclasts.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • From the fifth to the twelfth century Lequien (II, 513) mentions nine titulars; his list might be increased.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • Lequien (II, 1015) gives four titulars: Musonius in 381,

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

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