Definition of Titivated

1. Verb. (past of titivate) ¹

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Definition of Titivated

1. titivate [v] - See also: titivate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Titivated

titi family
titi monkey
titians
titillate
titillated
titillates
titillating
titillatingly
titillations
titillative
titin
titipounamu
titis
titivate
titivated (current term)
titivates
titivating
titivation
titivations
titlark
titlarks
title
title-holder
title case
title character
title characters
title deed
title deeds
title defect

Literary usage of Titivated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"They've titivated the house up as well as they could. I'm going to titivate him some things up now. TIZZY,—common short form for Elizabeth. TO, prep. ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1894)
"Many a fair and precious flower is coddled and " titivated " out of existence in these trim and orderly days ; and I shrewdly suspect that the greater part ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1842)
"... which, when we have titivated with a burned cork, as we usually do when passing that way, seems the common ancestor of these gentry ; certainly they are ..."

4. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1874)
"... have been crying out for pomatum and hot water ever since eight o'clock, and won't let the old lady see them till their titivated up. ..."

5. Iolanthe, Or, The Peer and the Peri: Or The Peer and the Peri. A New and by Arthur Sullivan, William Schwenck Gilbert (1882)
"... Hustle him about, Take a tipsy lout Strap him to a shutter ; What am I but he, Washed at hours stated, Fed on filagree, Taught and titivated ? ..."

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