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A '''title''' can be a prefix or suffix added to a [[person]]'s name to signify either veneration, an official position or a professional or academic qualification. In some[[ language]]s, titles may even be inserted between a first and last name (for example, Graf in German, Cardinal in Catholic usage or clerical titles such as Archbishop or Ter in the Armenian Apostolic Church). Some titles are hereditary.
==Definitions==
*1. a. An inscription placed on or over an object, giving its name or describing it; a [[legend]]; sometimes, a placard hung up in a [[theatre]] giving the name of the piece, etc. Obs. In earliest use repr. L. titulus, the inscription on the Cross.
:b. An inscribed pillar, column, tombstone, or the like. (A literalism of transl.) Obs. rare.
:c. A piece of written [[material]] introduced into a [[film]] or television programme to explain [[action]] or represent [[dialogue]]; a caption; cf. SUB-TITLE n. 3. Also, a credit title (see CREDIT n. 13d).
*2. a. The descriptive heading of each section or subdivision of a [[book]] (now only in law-books); the [[formal]] heading of a legal document; hence, a part or division of a [[book]], or of a subject (obs.).
*b. app. Subject, matter. Obs.
*c. transf. A document; a writing, a letter. Obs.
*3. a. The name of a [[book]], a poem, or other (written) composition; an inscription at the beginning of a book, describing or indicating its subject, [[content]]s, or [[nature]], and usually also giving the name of the [[author]], compiler, or [[editor]], the name of the publisher, and the place and date of publication; also = TITLE-PAGE. Also, the designation of a [[picture]] or statue.
*b. Bookbinding. The label or panel on the back of a book giving a brief title (binder's title).
*c. (a) Chiefly in Publishing, a book, a magazine, a newspaper; (b) a gramophone record.
*4. A descriptive or distinctive appellation; a name, denomination, style.
*5. a. An appellation attaching to an [[individual]] or [[family]] in [[virtue]] of rank, [[function]], office, or attainment, or the possession of or association with certain lands, etc.; esp. an appellation of honour pertaining to a [[person]] of high rank; also transf. (colloq.) a person of title (quot. 1900).
*b. Sport. The championship or supremacy in a contest or competition; the [[game]] or contest in which this is decided.
*6. That which justifies or substantiates a claim; a ground of right; hence, an alleged or recognized right. Const. with inf., or to, in, of the [[thing]] claimed.
*7. spec. [[Law]]. a. Legal right to the possession of property (esp. real property); the [[evidence]] of such right; title-deeds.
:b. in [[title]], of a benefice: (Held) as one's proper cure; opposed to in commendam (see COMMENDAM). Obs.
:c. An assertion of right; a claim. Obs.
:d. A title-deed. Obs. rare.
*8. Eccl. A certificate of presentment to a benefice, or a guarantee of support, required (in ordinary cases) by the bishop from a candidate for [[ordination]].
*9. Eccl. Each of the principal or parish churches in Rome, the incumbents of which are cardinal priests; a cardinal church (CARDINAL a. 6). In L. titulus. Bingham (Antiq. VII. i. 10) explains the name from the fact that the churches gave a ‘title of cure or denomination’ to the presbyters who were set over them. See Catholic Dict. s.v.
*10. Assaying, etc. The [[expression]] in carats of the degree of purity of gold (= F. titre).
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