intitule

See also: intitulé

English

Etymology

Compare French intituler. See entitle.

Verb

intitule (third-person singular simple present intitules, present participle intituling, simple past and past participle intituled)

1. (transitive, Early Modern, obsolete) To entitle; to give a title to.
   • 1689, John Selden, Table Talk, London: E. Smith, Section 141 “Trinity,” p. 142,^[1]

     The second Person is made of a piece of Bread by the Papist, the Third Person is made of his own Frenzy, Malice, Ignorance and Folly, by the Roundhead. To all these the Spirit is intituled. One the Baker makes, the other the Cobbler; and betwixt these two, I think the First Person is sufficiently abused.

   • 1691, Arthur Gorges (translator), The Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon (1609), London, Preface,^[2]

     […] in some Fables I find such singular proportion between the similitude and the thing signified; and such apt and clear coherence in the very Structure of them, and propriety of the Names wherewith the Persons or Actors in them are inscribed and intituled […]

References

• “intitule”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Verb

intitule

1. inflection of intituler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

intitule

1. inflection of intitular:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

intitule

1. inflection of intitular:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative