entail [verb en-teyl ; noun en-teyl , en -teyl]
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See more synonyms for entail on Thesaurus.com to cause or involve by necessity or as a consequence: a loss entailing no regret. to impose as a burden: Success entails hard work. Law to limit the passage of (a landed estate) to a specified line of heirs, so that it cannot be alienated, devised, or bequeathed. Law to cause (anything) to descend to a fixed series of possessors. Show More
the act of entailing. Law the state of being entailed. any predetermined order of succession, as to an office. Law something that is entailed, as an estate. Law the rule of descent settled for an estate. Show More
Origin of entail 1350–1400; Middle English entailen (v.),
entail (noun). See
en-1 ,
tail2 Related forms en·tail·er , noun en·tail·ment , noun non·en·tailed , adjective pre·en·tail , verb (used with object) un·en·tailed , adjective Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Related Words for entailed require ,
necessitate ,
encompass ,
involve ,
entangle ,
impose ,
evoke ,
demand ,
occasion ,
tangle ,
cause Examples from the Web for entailed Contemporary Examples of entailed When one thinks of that, and the responsibility it entailed , it makes the hairs on the back of the neck move.
Twice in the past two weeks, this has entailed meeting a plane on the runway to retriever sick passengers who may be infected.
I guess they were rightly afraid of what they might have heard, of what the answering might have entailed for us all.
Enlightened liberalism, you see, entailed a certain courtesy, precision, evidence, reasoning.
The recession, and all it entailed —unemployment, stagnating wages, etc.—surely played a part.
Historical Examples of entailed But, as Laura Ann said, it entailed things, notably industry.
The rag jammed in the barrel and entailed a hard pull to extract it.
Entailed on the baby about to be born, if he happens to be a boy.
You know the law about succeeding to peerages and entailed lands?
But I know too well that he is my father; and that he has entailed on me everlasting sorrow.
British Dictionary definitions for entailed to bring about or impose by necessity; have as a necessary consequence this task entails careful thought property law to restrict (the descent of an estate) to a designated line of heirs logic to have as a necessary consequence Show More
property law the restriction imposed by entailing an estate an estate that has been entailed Show More
Derived Forms entailer , noun Word Origin for entail C14: entaillen , from en- 1 + taille limitation, tail ²
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Word Origin and History for entailed v. mid-14c., "convert (an estate) into 'fee tail' (feudum talliatum )," from en- (1) "make" + taile "legal limitation," especially of inheritance, ruling who succeeds in ownership and preventing it from being sold off, from Anglo-French taile , Old French taillie , past participle of taillier "allot, cut to shape," from Late Latin taliare . Sense of "have consequences" is 1829, from notion of "inseparable connection." Related: Entailed ; entailling .
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