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WordWealth: titular
tit·u·lar
 ,
adj.
1. existing or
being such in title only; nominal; having the title but none of the
associated duties, powers, etc.: the titular head of the company.
2. from whom or which a title or name is taken: His
titular Saint is Michael. 3. of, pertaining to, or of the
nature of a title. 4. having a title, esp. of rank. 5.
designating any of the Roman Catholic churches in Rome whose nominal
incumbents are cardinals.
–n.
6. a person who
bears a title. 7. a person from whom or thing from which a
title or name is taken. 8. Eccles. a person entitled
to a benefice but not required to perform its duties.
[1585–95; < L titul(us)
TITLE
+ -AR1]
—tit·u·lar·i·ty
 ,
n.
—tit  u·lar·ly,
adv. (Random
House Webster's, Unabridged).
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The strange in The Lady and the Duke concerns not just the mores of the time
(as would always be the case) but also specifically its politics. Much of
the drawing-room conversation between the
titular characters concerns topics that,
while certainly present residually, are not exactly live issues as
themselves at the start of the 21st century monarchical vs. republican rule,
primarily. ——
Victor Morton; 'The
Lady and the Duke'; National Review;
June 4, 2002
Although these figures, and a great many more like them, make it quite clear that women have pursued the right to own with considerably more zeal than the right to vote, they are not as conclusive as they seem to be. There is no doubt that much of this "ownership" is
titular, representing a legal arrangement rather than an actual fact of acquisition. But on any basis it points up the importance of the American woman as a buyer. Most of the time she is buying as the family purchasing agent and is thus exercising buying custody over family funds -- a "right" of no mean power. ——
Paul Foley;
Whatever Happened to Women's Rights?;
the Atlantic; March 1964
I used to work at
the American Enterprise
Institute, by all accounts the center of the neoconservative universe.
In fact, I used to work for Ben Wattenberg, a man I believe The New
Republic once called the "Titular Deity of the Neoconservatives."
Anyway, when I was a policy peon there AEI was a Reaganite government
in exile. One Friday, Joshua Muravchik,
Muravchik
probably the premiere neocon foreign-policy intellectual of his generation,
was giving what used to be called a "brown-bag lecture" (I believe
they now call them "Friday Forums") on the current state of
neoconservatism. A who's who of Reaganite intellectuals were in attendance.
During the Q&A I asked to explain what exactly a neoconservative is.
His answer was a surprisingly unsatisfying bit of
sophistry — something
like "neoconservatism is the body of beliefs held by people who call
themselves neoconservative."
——
Jonah Goldberg in
'State
of Confusion', Brouhahas — intellectual and otherwise; National
Review; May 16, 2003
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