Verb

(en verb)

To demand ownership of.

To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.

To demand ownership or right to use for land.

(legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.

To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

* John Locke

We must know how the first ruler, from whom anyone claims , came by his authority.

To proclaim.

(Spenser)

To call or name.

(Spenser)

Verb

(head)

(announce)

Verb

(announc)

(label) To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.

* (convert into real quote) (1724-1804)

Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}

(label) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.

* (Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)

Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.