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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intitle.

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Examples

  • He intitles himself to all the merits of his company, whether schools, hospitals, or exhibitions, in which he is joint benefactor, though four hundred years ago, and upbraids them far more than those that gave them: yet with all this folly he has wit enough to get wealth, and in that a sufficienter man than he that is wiser.

    Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

  • If, therefore, our Spectacle brought in as much, or more Money than Sir Richard's Comedy, what is there on his Side but Usage that intitles him to be paid for one, more than we are for t'other?

    An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889

  • I once again congratulate you, my dear, on this triumph of tenderness: you see love, like virtue, is not only its own reward, but sometimes intitles us to other rewards too.

    The History of Emily Montague 1769

  • [You are to observe, that my notes, as she went along while I dictated, are put between hooks.] [Begin] 'Dear Sir' [for I would be neither too familiar nor too cold] 'The terms on which you and I have lived, intitles you to an explanation of my reasons for leaving you so abruptly; and I hope the generosity of my motive will incline you to overlook the seeming unkindness of the action.'

    Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph 1767

  • This degree intitles them to lower offices: but the highest employments are sure to be conferred on those who can obtain the degree of Tsin-seé (or Doctor) which they are examined for the year after they have obtained the former degree (but this they are not obliged to attend) at Pe-king before the Emperor himself: who seldom confers this degree on more than one hundred and fifty out of five or six thousand candidates.

    Hau Kiou Choaan : 1761

  • I once again congratulate you, my dear, on this triumph of tenderness: you see love, like virtue, is not only its own reward, but sometimes intitles us to other rewards too.

    The History of Emily Montague Frances Brooke 1756

  • Women would confess what she should be very sorry to hear them confess, namely, that, in their Opinion, Sobriety intitles a Man to the Character of Insipidity.

    Remarks on Clarissa (1749) Sarah Fielding 1739

  • Service, intitles me humbly to recommend myself to your Favour: Who am,

    Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. English Pier Francesco Tosi 1692

  • That intitles millions of illegal children free health care up to a certain age, in their 20's.

    Lone Star Times 2009

  • Your inten - tion of beginning y® establishment of a professorship of political law in our University, on y® basis you describe from Cicero, intitles you/lot only to the thanks of that society but of every person who wishes well to the Commonwealth.

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

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