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Definition of Titivated
1. titivate [v] - See also: titivate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Titivated
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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