entail
verb
- to have as a logical consequence
noun
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Pronunciation: /ɛnˈteɪl/ / /ɪnˈteɪl/ / /ənˈteɪl/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English entaille (“carving”), from Old French entaille (“incision”), from the verb entailler. See above.
- That which is entailed.
“A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates.”
- That which is entailed.
- That which is entailed.
“All land acquired by inheritance must follow the Khasi law of entail, by which property descends from the mother to the youngest daughter, and again from the latter to her youngest daughter.”
- Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
“A worke of rich entayle.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English entaillen, from Old French entaillier, entailler (“to notch”, literally “to cut in”); from prefix en- + tailler (“to cut”), from Late Latin taliare, from Latin talea. Compare late Latin feudum talliatum (“a fee entailed, i.e., curtailed or limited”).
- To imply, require, or invoke.
“This activity will entail careful attention to detail.”
“What mattered to Hegel, and now Leach, is a presupposedly, historically necessary evolution in the structure of political power, entailing the creation of new classes of powerless victims to be sacrificed on the altar of abstract ideological concepts (i.e., “choice”).”
- To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
“Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.”
“1754-1762, David Hume, The History of England Allowing them to entail their estates.”
- To appoint hereditary possessor.
“To entail him and his heirs unto the crown.”