entitle

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

• transitive verb To give a name or title to.
• transitive verb To furnish with a right or claim to something.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To give a name or title to; affix a name or appellation to; designate; denominate; name; call; dignify by a title or honorary appellation; style: as, the book is entitled “Commentaries on the Laws of England”; an ambassador is entitled “Your Excellency.”
• To give a title, right, or claim to; give a right to demand or receive; furnish with grounds for laying claim: as, his services entitle him to our respect.
• To appropriate as by title; attribute or attach as by right.
• To attribute; ascribe.

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

• transitive verb 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
• transitive verb 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.
• transitive verb obsolete To attribute; to ascribe.

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

• verb give a title to
• verb dignify by an honorary designation.
• verb give authority (to do something)
• verb give rightful ownership
• verb give a title to a book, film, play, etc.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb give a title to
• verb give the right to
• verb give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility