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TITTLE, s. [I suppose from tit. Dr. Johnson. — 
German tuttel, punctum, apex, ab absoleto Anglo Sax. Syban, 
figere, pungere. Wachter and Serenius. ] A small particle; 
a point; a dot.—In the particular which concerned the 
church, the Scotch would never depart from a tittle. 
Clarendon. 
Angels themselves disdaining 
T’ approach thy temple, give thee in command 
What to the smallest tittle thou shalt say 
To thy adorers. Milton. 
TITTLESHALL, or Titlf.shall, a parish of England, 
in Norfolk; 6 miles south-south-west of Fakenham. Popu¬ 
lation 417. 
TI'TTLETATTLE, s. [A word formed from tattle 
by a ludicrous reduplication.] Idle talk; prattle; empty 
gabble. 
As the foe drew near 
With love, and joy, and life and dear, 
Our don, who knew this tittle-tattle, 
Did, sure as trumpet, call to battle. Prior. 
An idle talker. Sherwood. —Impertinent tittle-tattles, 
who have no other variety in their discourse than that of 
talking slower or faster. Taller. 
To TI'TTLETATTLE, v. n. To prate idly.—You must 
be tittle-tattling before all our guests. Shakspeare. 
TITTLETA'TTLING, s. The act of prating idly.— 
You are full in your titt let at flings of Cupid: here is 
Cupid, and there is Cupid: I will tell you now what a good 
old woman told me. Sidney. 
To TITUBATE, ®. n. [tituho, Lat.] To stumble. 
This is an old verb in Cockeram’s vocabulary. Dr. Johnson 
uses it in one of his definitions of to trip. 
TITUBA'TION, s. [tituho, Lat.] The act of stumbling. 
TITUL, a large village in the south of Hungary, at the 
confluence of the Theiss and the Danube, and the chief 
place of the district belonging to the Tschaikists or Danube 
pontooneers. 
TITULAR, adj. [ titulus , Lat.] Nominal; having 
or conferring only the title.—They would deliver up the 
kingdom to the king of England to shadow their rebel lion, 
and to be titular and painted head of those arms. Bacon. 
TITULA'RITY, s. The state of being titular.—Julius, 
Augustus, and Tiberius, with great humility received the 
name of imperator; but their successors retain the same even 
in its titularity. Brown. 
TI'TULARLY, adv. Nominally;i by title only.—The 
church representative is a general council; not titularly so, 
as the conventicle of Trent; but plenarily true, general, and 
lawful. Mountagu. 
TITULARY, adj. [ titulus , Lat.] Consisting in a 
title.■—The malecontents of his kingdom have not been 
base nor titulary impostors, but of an higher nature. 
Bacon. —Relating to a title.—William the Conqueror, how¬ 
soever he used the power of a conqueror to reward his 
Normans, yet mixed it with a titulary pretence grounded 
upon the Confessor’s will. Bacon. 
TITULARY, s. One that has a title or right.—The 
persons deputed for the celebration of these masses were 
neither titularies nor perpetual curates, but persons entirely 
couductitious. Ay life. 
TITUMATI, a river of South America, in the province 
of Darien, which joins the Chucunaqui.—There is another 
river of this name in the same province, which enters the .sea 
in the gulf of Tucumarh 
TITUS VESPASIANUS, a Roman emperor, was the 
eldest son of Vespasian, and born A. D. 40. See Rome. 
T1VDIJA, a small river in the north-west of European 
Russia, which flows into the lake Onega on the west side. 
Quantities of fine marble are seen along its banks. 
TIVERTON, a market-town and borough of England, in 
the county of Devon, situated at the confluence of the Axe 
and Loman rivers, from which circumstance it was anciently 
called Twyfordtown, or Twofordtown. It stands on the 
slope of a hill, rising gently towards the north, and formed 
at the base triangularly by the courses of the streams. The 
town extends in length nearly a mile, and in breadth three 
quarters. The inhabitants have long been characterised for 
their social intercourse and mutual harmony. Regular 
assemblies, concerts, and card parties, are frequent in the 
winter, and many evening clubs and friendly societies have 
been formed, Tiverton was anciently governed by a port¬ 
reeve and other officers; but by charter from James I. it was 
incorporated under a mayor, 12 capital burgesses, and 12 
assistants, who elect a recorder. The right of returning two 
members to parliament was also granted, which has ever since 
been retained. In consequence of some mistakes in the elec¬ 
tion of a mayor, in 1724, the town was re-incorporated by 
charter of the 11th of George I. Tiverton is a place of con¬ 
siderable antiquity. It was a village in the reign of Alfred, 
and described in the Doomsday Survey as lands belonging to 
the king. 1269 houses, and 6732 inhabitants. Market on 
Tuesday, and a small one on Saturday; also one on Monday 
for kerseys, with two annual fairs; 14 miles north of Exeter, 
and 181 west-by-south of London. Lat. 50. 54. N. long. 
3. 29. W. 
TIVERTON, a township of England, in Cheshire; 2 
miles south of Tarporley. Population 493. 
TIVERTON, a post township in the United States, in 
Newport county, Rhode Island. It is on the mainland, 
opposite to Portsmouth, with which it is connected by a 
bridge. Population 2837 ; 54 miles south-west of Boston. 
TIVETSHALL, St. Margaret and St. Mary, united 
parishes of England, in Norfolk ; 5§ miles north-east of 
Diss. 
TIVIOT, or Chiviot Mountains, the high hills on the 
borders of England and Scotland. 
TIVOKEA, an island in the South Pacific ocean. It is 
low and sandy, of an elliptic form ; 18 miles in its longest 
diameter. There is a lagoon in the centre, which is entered 
from the south-west end of the island. Trees and shrubs are 
numerous, but the soil is extremely scanty, consisting of 
a very thin covering of mould, over a low coral foundation. 
The "inhabitants are stout made, of a dark brown, and 
puncture or tattoo themselves with the figures of fishes. 
Their features are not disagreeable; their hair and beards 
generally black and curling. They go perfectly naked, 
all except a small piece of cloth around the loins. Lat. 14. 
28. S. long. 144. 56. W. 
TIVOLI (the Tibur of the ancients), a considerable town 
in the central part of Italy, about 18 miles east-by-north of 
Rome. It is delightfully situated on an eminence, sheltered 
on one side by Monte Castali and a circular range of the 
Sabine mountains, while on the other it commands an ex¬ 
tensive prospect over the Campagna di Roma. The sides of 
the hill on which it stands are covered with olives and fruit 
trees; but its great attraction now, as in former ages, consists 
in the falls of the Teverone (the ancient Anio), which glides 
gently through the town, till reaching the brink of a rock, 
over which it precipitates itself near 100 feet in one mass, 
and after boiling up in its narrow channel, rushes through a 
chasm of the rock into a cavern below. On the summit of 
the steep bank stands a beautiful temple of the Corinthian 
order, supposed to have been dedicated to Vesta, and built in 
the Augustan age. 
TFVY, adj. [A word expressing speed, from tantivy ,the 
note of a hunting-horn.] 
In a bright moon-shine while winds whistle loud, 
Tivy, tivy, tivy, we mount and we fly. 
All rocking in a downy white cloud : 
And lest our leap from the sky should prove too far, 
We slide on the back of a new-falling star. Dry den. 
TIVY or Towey, a river of Wales, in the county of Caer- 
marthen, one of the principal in the whole principality. It 
rises from an extensive morass in the Alpine valley of Berwin, 
in the cdunty of Cardigan, and runs southwards to Lindovery ; 
and being joined by a stream from Brecknockshire, turns 
towards the west, passes Llangaddock and Llandilovawr, and 
thence running due west, in a delightful vale, passes Caer- 
marthen. 
