:4. To furnish (a person) with a ‘title’ to an estate. Hence gen. to give (a [[person]] or [[thing]]) a rightful claim to a possession, privilege, designation, mode of treatment, etc. Const. to with n. or inf.; also simply. Now said almost exclusively of circumstances, qualities, or actions; formerly often of personal [[agent]]s. | :4. To furnish (a person) with a ‘title’ to an estate. Hence gen. to give (a [[person]] or [[thing]]) a rightful claim to a possession, privilege, designation, mode of treatment, etc. Const. to with n. or inf.; also simply. Now said almost exclusively of circumstances, qualities, or actions; formerly often of personal [[agent]]s. |