entailed
Americanadjective
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involved with or following from something by logical necessity or as a consequence.
Most of the public complied with the curfew restrictions despite the entailed inconvenience.
If the entailed proposition turns out to be false, the theory that generated it must also be false.
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Law. (of real estate) limited to a specified line of heirs, so that it cannot be transferred or bequeathed to anyone else.
This entailed estate has belonged to the family for a period of 300 years.
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Law. descending to a fixed series of possessors, as a title, the crown, etc..
On the death of his uncle Edward, Duke of York, Richard acquired the entailed title of his grandfather Edmund, Duke of York.
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Etymology
Origin of entailed
First recorded in 1525–35; entail ( def. ) + -ed 2 ( def. ) for the adjective senses; entail ( def. ) + -ed 1 ( def. ) for the verb sense
Example Sentences
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In the early 1880s, novelist George Alfred Townsend wrote, in The Entailed Hat, “My wife will be a shakester in diamonds!”
From Salon • Mar. 6, 2013
Entailed property The amount of land might be increased by purchase, but there is a strong presumption that it thus became family property and did not remain at the disposal of the buyer.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)
You've struck the Ark of the Lord this time—ole Milburn's Entailed Hat!
From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by Townsend, George Alfred
His wife set the Entailed Hat upon his temples.
From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by Townsend, George Alfred
Children can see the right at one quick glance, For, unobscured by self or prejudice, They mark the aim, and not the sacrifice Entailed.
From Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. by Curzon, Sarah Anne
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