entitle
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Old French entituler, French intituler, Late Latin intitulare.
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entitle (third-person singular simple present entitles, present participle entitling, simple past and past participle entitled)
- Give a title to; to dignify by an honorary designation.
- Bestow the right to do (to own, to demand, or to receive) something, to someone.
- Give a title to a book, film, play, etc.
- 1714, Bp George Bull, Some Important Points of Primitive Chriſtianity Maintained and Defended (2ⁿᵈ ed.), volume III, discourse IV: “The Conſubſtantiality Coeternity the Son of God with God the Father, Aſſerted; or ſome few Animadverſions on a Treatiſe of Mr. Gilbert Clerke, entituled Anteniceniſmus, ſo far as the ſaid Author pretends to anſwer Dr. George Bull’s Defenſe of the Nicene Faith, &c.”, page 915
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to give a title to; to dignify by an honorary designation
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to bestow the right to do something
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to give a title to a book etc.
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