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(transitive, Early Modern, obsolete) To entitle; to give a title to..
1689, John Selden, Table Talk, London: E. Smith, Section 141 “Trinity,” p. 142, 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, […] 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 […]
Use intitule when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Intitule means (transitive, Early Modern, obsolete) To entitle; to give a title to..
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1689, John Selden, Table Talk, London: E. Smith, Section 141 “Trinity,” p. 142, 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.
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