Entitle
[ɪn'taɪt(ə)l;en-] or [ɪn'taɪtl]
Definition
(verb.) give a title to.
(verb.) give the right to; 'The Freedom of Information Act entitles you to request your FBI file'.
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Definition
(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."
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To attribute; to ascribe.
Checker: Stella
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Name, designate, denominate, style, call, dub, christen, TITLE.[2]. Give a claim to, give a right to, qualify for, fit for.
Typist: Pansy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Qualify, empower, tit, enable, name, style, denominate, designate,characterize
ANT:Disqualify, disentitle, disable, not_designate, not_characterize
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Definition
v.t. to give a title to: to style: to give a claim to.
Checker: Uriah
Examples
- His untiring energy and great efficiency during the campaign entitle him to a full share of all the credit due for its success. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The promptitude of his movements and his gallantry should entitle him to the commendation of his country. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If this were the only thing that he had ever accomplished, it would entitle him to consideration as an inventor of note. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In this narrative I have not made the mention I should like of officers, dead and alive, whose services entitle them to special mention. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Mr. Knight, whose services in the cause of educational literature entitle him to the highest praise, expended ￡5,000 a year in woodcuts for this work. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He always admitted his blunders, and extenuated those of officers under him beyond what they were entitled to. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Moor who has made a pilgrimage to Mecca is entitled to high distinction. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But you are not entitled to know mine; nor will such behaviour as this, ever induce me to be explicit. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It was entitled, _A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- His chief treatise, entitled the Republic, is at once a treatise on morals, on social organization, and on the metaphysics and science of nature. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- She reaped the reward to which disinterestedness is entitled, and found an agreeable companion in her niece. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- When the plantation indigo was worth three-fourths of the price of the best French indigo, it was, by this act, entitled to a bounty of 6d. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He entitles his narrative, THE EARL OF CASSILIS' TYRANNY AGAINST A QUICK (i. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I don't believe self-inflicted jaundice entitles you to a convalescent leave. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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