Word Finder - title

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A prefix (honorific) or suffix (post-nominal) added to a person's name to signify either veneration, official position or a professional or academic qualification. See also

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Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.

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a good title to an estate, or an imperfect title

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In canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.

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A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.

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The name of a book, film, musical piece, painting, or other work of art.

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I know the singer's name, but not the title of the song.

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A publication.

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Buyers of the new video game console can choose from three bundled titles.

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A section or division of a subject, as of a law or a book.

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(chiefly in the plural) A written title, credit, or caption shown with a film, video, or performance.

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The titles scrolled by too quickly to read.

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The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.

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The subject of a writing; a short phrase that summarizes the entire topic.

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A division of an act of law

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Title II of the USA PATRIOT Act

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The recognition given to the winner of a championship in sports.

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To assign a title to; to entitle.

The chapter title poses a valid question.

She picked the book up and read the title.

By this fluctuation the pond asserts its title to a shore, and thus the shore is shorn, and the trees cannot hold it by right of possession.

My brother inherited the title when he died.

It was suggested that I should change the title from "Autumn Leaves" to "The Frost King," which I did.

He can just change the title from Saint among the Sinners to Sinner among the Saints, The Life and Times of a Mine-Town Hooker.

Shortly after he came into possession of large estates left by Catherine de' Medici, from one of which he took his title of count of Auvergne.

But on the twenty- ninth of July Kutuzov received the title of Prince.

She was a talker—told me how she figured the guy was gonna cheat on the sales tax so he pays in cash and gets the title signed over in blank.

He would have taken his title from Beaconsfield had he survived to enter the peerage.

But in those troubled days their title was as good as any to be found in India.

We were content to allow him this small title of uniqueness knowing it was killing him to be so close to a scientific miracle with hands tied and mouth gagged against announcing his findings to the world.

The message was dated July 3rd and was addressed to Joseph Dawkins, asking for an update on the title to the property in litigation.

He knew what she was, and he was content to call her nishani, the title given to a warrior's lifemate.

On his death, one of his advisors, who betrayed him and allied with the Yirkin invaders, seized the title of dhjan.

It wasn't out of the realm of the possible that the information he needed was hidden in some sort of sadistic treasure hunt created by the sociopathic goddess who held the title of Death before him.

An important event of his pontificate was the capture of Granada (2nd of January 1492), which was celebrated at Rome with great rejoicing and for which Innocent gave to Ferdinand of Aragon the title of "Catholic Majesty."

Alex wrote a check, pocketed the bill of sale and title, and then they all walked out of the office.

You did not choose her title, her armies, her gold, her influence, her banishment, her death.

Do you think money and title are the only reasons to marry?

He took the title of king as Maximilian I.

He left no family, but his title had been re-granted in 1792 with a.

A buyer had to convince himself of the seller's title.

It was not printed till 1558, ten years after the author's death, and then under the title of Les Amants fortunes.

But Henry and Marguerite still continued friends; she still bore the title of queen; she visited Marie de' Medici on equal terms; and the king frequently consulted her on important affairs, though his somewhat parsimonious spirit was grieved by her extravagance.

For this, the king granted Berford's Hall, formerly Charleston's Inn, which Chicheley's trustees had granted to him so as to obtain a royal grant and indefeasible title.

A decree of the parlement (1606), obtained by Marguerite de Valois, deprived him of nearly all his possessions, including Auvergne, though he still retained the title.

In 1164 Barisone, giudice of Arborea, was given the title of king of the whole island by Frederick Barbarossa, but his supremacy was never effective.

Under Byzantium it remained nominally until the 10th century, when we find the chief magistrate still bearing the title of apXow.3 In the 8th century 4 (720) the period of Saracen invasion began; but the Saracens never secured a firm footing in the island.

The title of giudice was abolished and a feudal marquisate substituted.

In 1717, however, Cardinal Alberoni retook Cagliari for Spain; but this state of things was short-lived, for in 1720, by the treaty of London, Sardinia passed in exchange for Sicily to the dukes of Savoy, to whom it brought the royal title.

He had the title of deputy-general of the churches, and was really the pillar of their hope.

In 1904 he delivered at the university of California a course of lectures, the object of which was to illustrate the application of the methods of physical chemistry to the study of the theory of toxins and antitoxins, and which were published in 1907 under the title Immunochemistry.

On her death in 1 754, he occupied himself in collecting together all the letters that had passed between them, which, we are told, he transcribed twice over under the title of "The Picture of Artless Love."

From this time onward he occupied himself with the composition of his chief work, The Light of Nature Pursued, of which in 1763 he published a specimen under the title of "Free Will."

See Verginia (disambiguation) for articles sharing the title Verginia.

The king set out for Rome to secure his coronation, but Venice refused to let him pass through .her territories; and at Trant, on the 4th of February 1508, he took the important step of assuming the title of Roman Emperor Elect, to which he soon received the assent of pope Julius II.

She published on her return an account of her experiences, under the title of Through Bolshevik Russia (1920).

As it was to a cat of the latter kind that Linnaeus gave the name of Felis catus, Pocock urges that this title is not available for the European wild cat, which he would call Felis sylvestris.

The chief, whose title is nawab, is a Mahommedan, of Afghan descent.

The book will contain four essays, all in French, with the general title of Project of a Universal science, capable of raising our nature to its highest perfection; also Dioptrics, Meteors and Geometry, wherein the most curious matters which the author could select as a proof of the universal science which he proposes are explained in such a way that even the unlearned may understand them.'

Voet now issued, under the name of Martin Schoock, one of his pupils, a pamphlet with the title of Methodus novae philosophiae Renati Descartes, in which atheism and infidelity were openly declared to be the effect of the new teaching.

It was a draft of the work published in 1650 under the same title.

He wrote in this connexion a number of articles collected in 1887 under the title Treu and Frei.

He first asserted his power by literally throwing to the dogs the last of his boyar tyrants, and shortly afterwards announced his intention of assuming the title of tsar, a title which his father and grandfather had coveted but never dared to assume publicly.

His strange title is given him in the chronicles on the strength of a story that he put two brothers of the name of Carvajal to death tyrannically, and was given a time, a plazo, by them in which to answer for his crime in the next world.

The word itself represents the Mongol Khan-Balik, "the city of the khan," or emperor, the title by which Peking continues, more or less, to be known to the Mongols and other northern Asiatics.

Persians and Arabs told the 1 Nativitas et victoriae Alexandri magni regis was the original title.

In 1 3 42 it was purchased by the count of Wurttemberg, whose descendants afterwards acquired the title of duke.

Amalric was the founder of a dynasty of kings of Cyprus, which lasted till 1475, while after 1269 his descendants regularly enjoyed the title of kings of Jerusalem.