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Definition of Entitle

1. Verb. Give the right to. "They entitle him to write the letter"; "The Freedom of Information Act entitles you to request your FBI file"

2. Verb. Give a title to.

3. Verb. Give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility.

Definition of Entitle

1. v. t. 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."

Definition of Entitle

1. Verb. give a title to ¹

2. Verb. dignify by an honorary designation. ¹

3. Verb. give authority (to do something) ¹

4. Verb. give rightful ownership ¹

5. Verb. give a title to a book, film, play, etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Entitle

1. to give a title to [v -TLED, -TLING, -TLES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Entitle

entirenesses entires entireties entirety entise entisol entisols entitative entitatively entitic

entities entitize entitized entitizes entitizing entitle (current term) entitled entitlement entitlements entitles

entitlin' entitling entitule entituled entity entity-relationship diagram entity-relationship diagrams entity-relationship model entity-relationship models entity relationship diagram

Literary usage of Entitle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"But it also depends on the character of the group, that is to say, the particular set of mean values of the conditions which entitle a body to be ranked in ..."

2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1899)
"His valuable labors on the bench, in the field of statutory publications, his services in the executive branch of the government, entitle him to the respect ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"force or law, operating, or which can be made to operate, on matter, will not entitle the discoverer to a patent. It is only where the explorer has gone ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... by the liquid contained therein was in itself sufficient to entitle this geometrician from Bruges to a foremost XVI. DYNAMICS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. ..."

5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"... will still be insufficient, and does not entitle the granting of the peremptory writ until further findings are made establishing such insufficiency. ..."

6. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"He has been amply avenged for the disasters of 1866, and has reaped the reward to which his honourable and brilliant career entitle him. ..."

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