▪ I. unˈtitled, ppl. a.1
[un-1 8.]
1. Having no title or right (to rule).
| 1605 Shakes. Macb. iv. iii. 104 O Nation miserable! With an vntitled Tyrant, bloody Sceptred. |
2. Unnamed, undesignated.
| 1612 W. Parkes Curtaine-Dr. (1876) 11 When these things were thus vnknowne, and vntitled, a good and happy world was I then. |
3. Not distinguished by a title.
| 1798 S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. II. 425 There, untitled and unknown, may we fix our home. 1825 J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 71 What have we to do with the blazonry of an old people any more than..he, the untitled Adam? 1856 Emerson Eng. Traits, Aristocr., An untitled nobility possess all the power without the inconveniences that belong to rank. 1870 Burton Hist. Scot. lvi. V. 400 They have precedence over the untitled clergy. |
| absol. 1859 Habits of Gd. Society 26 My Lady A―..can scarcely appreciate the wide diffusion of wit and intellegence among the untitled. |
▪ II. unˈtitled, ppl. a.2
[un-2 8. Cf. untitle v.]
Deprived of the title of.
| 1596 Spenser F.Q. v. ix. 42 But false Duessa, now vntitled Queene, Was brought to her sad doome. |