To give, bestow, assign (a name). Const. dative or equivalent with to, upon. Obsolete.

To give (a name) to a person or thing. Obsolete.

transitive. To impose (an injunction, penalty, tax); †to bestow (a name) upon. (In early use with dative pronoun as in 2.)

figurative. To apply authoritatively or bestow (a name or title) upon, on, †to. (In quots. 1500 1566 with inverted construction.) Now associated…

figurative. To impose as with authority. (Cf. quot. 1712 at sense 10a.) figurative. To impose or lay (a liability, action, writ, duty, etc.); to…