entitle

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  1. transitive verb To give a name or title to.
  2. transitive verb To furnish with a right or claim to something: The coupon entitles the bearer to a 25 percent savings. Every citizen is entitled to equal protection under the law.

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  • Surely, if the total loss of sight in one eye, which himself is said never to have considered as a wound, did not entitle his name to be placed in the list of wounded officers, which seems somewhat doubtful, the gallantry of remaining at his post would never have escaped Lord Hood, as it seems to have done the Honourable Lieutenant General Stuart, had he been present on the occasion. —  The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Vol. I
  • In this year I published Annas Tenebrosus , which book I did not so entitle, because of the great obscurity of the solar eclipse, by so many prattled of to no purpose, but because of those underhand and clandestine counsels held in England by the soldiery, of which I would never, but in generals, give any knowledge unto any Parliament man. —  William Lilly's History of His Life and Times
  • These licenses entitle Blanket to comply with the gold dealing and gold export regulations and to Datafeed and UK data supplied by ProQuote.
  • If you register as a member of Patty Belle, it will entitle you to previews of specials and discounts which Patty Belle may run from time to time. —  My Women Stuff
  • Passes entitle the holder to a passholder fare on Eurostar of £50 each way, but it is possible to get a regular fare from £59 return by early booking. —  Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English entitlen, from Old French entiteler, from Medieval Latin intitulāre : Latin in-, provide with; see en-1 + Latin titulus, title.

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  1. Formerly also intitle (also entitule, intitule, after modern F. and Middle Latin); from Middle English entitlen, from Old French entituler, French intituler = Provencal intitular, entitular, entitolar = Spanish Portuguese intitular = Italian intitolare, from Middle Latin intitulare, give a title or name to, from Latin in, in, + titulus, a title: see title.
 

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