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/ɛntˈaɪtəl/ /ɪntˈaɪtəl/ Listen

verb

Entitle v. t. (past & past part. entitled; pres. part. entitling)

To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book "Commentaries;" to entitle a man "Honorable." "That which... we entitle patience."

To give a claim to; to qualify for, with a direct object of the person, and a remote object of the thing; to furnish with grounds for seeking or claiming with success; as, an officer's talents entitle him to command.

To attribute; to ascribe. (Obs.) "The ancient proverb... entitles this work... peculiarly to God himself."

Synonyms: To name; designate; style; characterize; empower; qualify; enable; fit.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... question among botanists whether the pandan known as sabutan is a variety of the common sea-shore pandan (P. tectorius) or whether it has sufficient distinctive characteristics to entitle it to be considered as a separate species (P. sabotan). Botanists have not as yet succeeded in securing a fruit of this pandan, which could settle the question, and it is very doubtful whether the fruit will ever be found. [12] ...

— Philippine Mats - Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 • Hugo H. Miller

... "had reached the Palais Royal, which it threw into the utmost uneasiness. Such a danger was to be averted at any cost. Madame Adelaide saw M. Arago, and told him that he would entitle himself to unbounded gratitude if he would see M. de Chateaubriand and entreat him to forego his intended speech; upon which condition he should be assured of having ...

— Louis Philippe - Makers of History Series • John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

... perceived the announcement of no less than four other schemes equally preposterous with our own. But, after all, what right had I to assume that the Glenmutchkin project would prove an ultimate failure? I had not a scrap of statistical information that might entitle me to form such an opinion. At any rate, Parliament, by substituting the Board of Trade as an initiating body of inquiry, had created a responsible tribunal, and freed us from the chance of obloquy. I saw before me a ...

— Stories by English Authors: Scotland • Various

... member of the legislature can have the slightest pretensions. He has, too, throughout a long public career, always maintained such an independence of character, and so nobly and generously subordinated his personal interests to his sense of public duty, as to entitle him as a right to our confidence, when he unbosoms himself either in print or in speech, of that knowledge which he has acquired by long study and experience in official and non-official life, and tells us important truths which it is necessary for ...

— Pius IX. And His Time • The Rev. AEneas MacDonell

... ease, the comforts of private and social life, you will easily imagine that I have no thoughts of opposition, or meddling with business. 'Otium cum dignitate' is my object. The former I now enjoy; and I hope that my conduct and character entitle me to some share of the latter. In short, I am now happy: and I found that I could not be so in ...

— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield

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