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 entails require ,
necessitate ,
encompass ,
involve ,
entangle ,
impose ,
evoke ,
demand ,
occasion ,
tangle ,
cause Examples from the Web for entails Contemporary Examples of entails In fact, that candy store is heavy industry, with all the mess that entails .
These entrepreneurs have chosen to incorporate as private businesses, with all the legal rights and privileges that entails .
In the contemporary Western world, unless we are eating sandwiches or soup, almost every meal we eat now entails a fork.
But this entails extraordinary risks and often months of planning.
Now Cindy Bullens is telling the world she has decided to be Cidny, a man—and is grappling with all that entails .
Historical Examples of entails I do not court publicity, but I cannot shirk my duty because it entails that.
The Ihrm must be put on, and the obligations of abstinence which it entails must be observed.
A choice which entails a concealed consequence is as to that consequence no choice.
The book also entails conventions of intellectual ownership.
For the Land's End is a show-place, and we know what that entails .
British Dictionary definitions for entails 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 entails 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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