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or acquired), given to persons, as duke marquis, honorable, esquire, etc. With his former title greet Macbeth. Shak.

The page of a book which contains it title. The world's all title-page; there's no contents. Young.

Having or bearing a title.

Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.

A large truncated cone of refined sugar.

To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle. [Obs.] Carlyle.

A short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists, etc.

To deprive of title or claim. Every ordinary offense does not disentitle a son to the love of his father. South.

To deprive of title or right. [R.] B. Jonson.

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. Shak.

See Entitle.

To call by a wrong title.

To give too high a title to.

Not titled; having no title, or appellation of dignity or distinction. Spenser.

To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.

Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.

The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.

f a class of bishops whose sees were formerly abbeys. Encyc. Brit. Abbot of the people. a title formerly given to one of the chief magistrates in Genoa. -- Abbot of Misrule (or Lord of Misrule), in mediæval times, the master of revels, as at Christmas; in Scotland called the Abbot of Unreason. Encyc. Brit.…

that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance. Abstract of title (Law), an epitome of the evidences of ownership.

The act of accruing; accretion; as, title by accruer.