Entitulate

Mr. Chanſellor and hee do not agree very well; they fell outt very lately about the entitulating ſome letters for forraine partes; […]

Four ſeveral Declarations of the preſent Parliament have entitulated the ſubject to them, and to the benefit of the ordinary Courts of Juſtice, as their Birthright.

The Favourers of Prelates, and Patrons of Clergy-men will blame us for not entitulating the Biſhops Moſt Godly, Moſt Holy, and ſuch like Epithets, &c. but ſeeing I am able to prove and juſtifie out of ancient Writers, that the ſervant hath in this Bork called his Maſter no otherwiſe than after his Chriſtian Name, I will lay aſide thoſe lofty titles, &c.

If we provide ourselves with about a Selibra or half pound of the Cheese, entitulated Duplex Glocestrius, or Double Gloucester; […]

We wish that space would allow some of these “gems of purest ray serene” to glitter on our pages, but we cannot give them all room, and a selection would be invidious to the merits of the others. Yet we grieve that one “pome” entitulated “The Bells” should be lost to the world. ’Tis a mighty conception and powerfully executed.

If they had not the courage or the sense to entitulate the correspondence as “Piratical attack of Her Majesty’s ship Algerine on thirteen Chinese trading junks,” at all events they might have put on the title page that which is to be found in the contents: “Attack by Her Majesty’s Ship Algerine on thirteen Chinese Trading Junks off Namoa Harbour.”