entail
[verb en-teyl; noun en-teyl, en-teyl]
- 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.
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- 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.
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Origin of entail
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Contemporary Examples
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
But, as Laura Ann said, it entailed things, notably industry.
Four Girls and a CompactAnnie Hamilton Donnell
The rag jammed in the barrel and entailed a hard pull to extract it.
The Hound From The NorthRidgwell Cullum
Entailed on the baby about to be born, if he happens to be a boy.
Is He Popenjoy?Anthony Trollope
You know the law about succeeding to peerages and entailed lands?
Tristram of BlentAnthony Hope
But I know too well that he is my father; and that he has entailed on me everlasting sorrow.
Ernest LinwoodCaroline Lee Hentz
entail
- to bring about or impose by necessity; have as a necessary consequencethis 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
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- property law
- the restriction imposed by entailing an estate
- an estate that has been entailed
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Word Origin
C14: entaillen, from en- 1 + taille limitation, tail ²
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Word Origin and History for entailed
entail
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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