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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To give a designation or title to (a legislative act, for example).

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To give a right or title to, or distinguish or call by, as a title or name; entitle or entitule.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To entitle; to give a title to.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To entitle; to give a title to.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English entitelen, intitulen, from Old French intituler, from Late Latin intitulāre : Latin in-, in; see in– + Late Latin titulāre, to entitle (from Latin titulus, title).]

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Compare French intituler. See entitle.

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