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Word Meanings - OVERTITLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To give too high a title to.

Related words: (words related to OVERTITLE)

  • TITLELESS
    Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
  • TITLED
    Having or bearing a title.
  • TITLER
    A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
  • TITLE-PAGE
    The page of a book which contains it title. The world's all title-page; there's no contents. Young.
  • TITLE
    The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book. 4. A section or division of a subject, as of a law, a book, specif. , a chapter or division of a law book. 5. An appellation of dignity, distinction, or preƫminence (hereditary or
  • UNTITLED
    1. Not titled; having no title, or appellation of dignity or distinction. Spenser. 2. Being without title or right; not entitled. Shak.
  • CATCH TITLE
    A short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists, etc.
  • INTITLE
    See ENTITLE
  • MISTITLE
    To call by a wrong title.
  • OVERTITLE
    To give too high a title to.
  • DISTITLE
    To deprive of title or right. B. Jonson.
  • DISENTITLE
    To deprive of title or claim. Every ordinary offense does not disentitle a son to the love of his father. South.
  • ENTITLE
    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. Shak.
  • BETITLE
    To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle. Carlyle.

 

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