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1 Titular -- rank: 1000

Titular definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary TIT'ULAR, a. [L. titulus ... only; nominal; having or conferring the title only; as a titular king or prince. 2. Having the title to an office ... discharging the duties of it. Both Valerius and Austin were titular bishops. TIT'ULAR WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1 ... relating to a legal title to something; "titulary rights" [syn: titular, titulary] 2: of or bearing a title signifying status or function; "of titular rank" 3: 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" ...

2 Titular bishop -- rank: 832

Titular bishop definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Titular Tit"u*lar, a. [F. titulaire, fr. L. titulus. See ... office or dignity without discharging its appropriate duties; as, a titular prince. If these magnificent titles yet remain Not merely titular. --Milton. Titular bishop. See under Bishop. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Bishop Bish ... who has the office of bishop, without especial jurisdiction. --Shipley. Titular bishop (R. C. Ch.), a term officially substituted in ...

3 Nominal -- rank: 476

Nominal definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary NOMINAL, a. 1. Titular; existing in name only; as , a nominal distinction or difference ... nominative, nominal] 6: existing in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party" [syn: nominal, titular] n 1: a phrase that can function as the subject ... ADJ: ADJ n Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Titular, only in name, nuncupative, nuncupatory. Moby Thesaurus abstract noun, adherent ... called, soi-disant, structural, substantive, supposed, supposititious, syntactic, tagmemic, tiny, titular, token, transitive, trifling, trivial, unexpensive, verbal, within means, worth the ...

4 Titulary -- rank: 367

... relating to a legal title to something; "titulary rights" [syn: titular, titulary] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Titulary Tit"u*la*ry ... Tit"u*la*ry, a. 1. Consisting in a title; titular. 2. Of or pertaining to a title. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Nominal, titular.

5 Titularity -- rank: 367

Titularity definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary TITULAR'ITY, n. The state of being titular. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Titularity Tit`u*lar"i*ty, n. The quality or state of being titular. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.

6 vicar apostolic -- rank: 367

... apostolic definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a titular Roman Catholic bishop in a non-Catholic area Merriam Webster ... s noun (plural vicars apostolic) Date: 1766 a Roman Catholic titular bishop who administers a territory not organized as a diocese ... a papal brief, commissioned to exercise episcopal authority. (c) A titular bishop in a country where there is no episcopal see ...

7 Titularly -- rank: 289

... 1. Pertaining to a title. Merriam Webster's adverb see titular I Webster's 1913 Dictionary Titularly Tit"u*lar*ly, adv. In a titular manner; nominally; by title only.

8 Chancellor -- rank: 289

... countries) [syn: chancellor, premier, prime minister] 3: the honorary or titular head of a university Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: Middle ... which diocesan business is transacted and recorded 2. a. the titular head of a British university b. (1) a university president ...

9 Vicar -- rank: 289

... idioms: vicar apostolic RC Ch. a Roman Catholic missionary or titular bishop. vicar-general (pl. vicars-general) 1 an Anglican official ... a papal brief, commissioned to exercise episcopal authority. (c) A titular bishop in a country where there is no episcopal see ...

10 Patriarch -- rank: 183

... Catholic bishop next in rank to the pope with purely titular or with metropolitan jurisdiction 3. a Mormon of the Melchizedek ...

11 Legal -- rank: 183

... derived from law often without a basis in actual fact ; titular < a corporation is a legal but not a real person ...

12 Job -- rank: 183

... who turns," etc., to God; both uncertain guesses; Iob): The titular hero of the Book of Job, represented as a wealthy ...

13 infidelium -- rank: 183

... who has the office of bishop, without especial jurisdiction. --Shipley. Titular bishop (R. C. Ch.), a term officially substituted in 1882 ...

14 in partibus infidelium -- rank: 183

... Latin in the regions of the infidels — used of a titular bishop having no diocesan jurisdiction, usually in non-Christian countries

15 in name only -- rank: 183

... christened, self-styled, so-called, soi-disant, specious, spuriously, synthetically, titular, truthlessly, ungenuinely, unnaturally, untruly, unveraciously, would-be