Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Entitle

Entitle , transitive verb

[Old French entituler, French intituler, Late Latin intitulare, from Latin in + titulus title. See Title, and compare Intitule.]

1.
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. — Shakespeare
2.
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.
3.
To attribute; to ascribe. [Obsolete]
The ancient proverb... entitles this work... peculiarly to God himself. — Milton