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• past participle of entail.
• past tense form of entail.

entailed

American  

[en-teyld] / ɛnˈteɪld /

adjective

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of entail.

Other Word Forms

• nonentailed
  adjective
• unentailed
  adjective

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

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 on the baby about to be born, if he happens to be a boy."

From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony

Meshach Milburn shook his head and put the Entailed Hat upon it.

From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by Townsend, George Alfred

"Entailed estate," he replied in the same tone.

From Froth by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

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