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v. To have, impose, or require as a necessary accompaniment or consequence: The investment entailed a high risk. The proposition X is a rose entails the proposition X is a flower because all roses are flowers.

v. To limit the inheritance of (property) to a specified succession of heirs.

v. To bestow or impose on a person or a specified succession of heirs.

n. The act of entailing, especially property.

n. The state of being entailed.

n. An entailed estate.

n. A predetermined order of succession, as to an estate or to an office.

n. Something transmitted as if by unalterable inheritance.

n. That which is entailed. Hence:

n. Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

v. To imply or require.

v. To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.

v. (obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.

v. (obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.

n. That which is entailed.

n. An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.

n. The rule by which the descent is fixed.

n. Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

v. To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.

v. To appoint hereditary possessor.

v. To cut or carve in an ornamental way.

To cut; carve for ornament.

In law, to limit and restrict the descent of (lands and tenements) by gift to a man and to a specified line of heirs, by settlement in such wise that neither the donee nor any subsequent possessor can alienate or bequeath it: as, to entail a manor to A. B. and to his eldest son, or to his heirs of his body begotten, or to his heirs by a particular wife. See entail, n., 3.

Hence To fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants; transmit in an unalterable course; devolve as an unavoidable consequence.

To bring about; cause to ensue or accrue; induce; involve or draw after itself.

n. . Engraved or carved work; intaglio; inlay.

n. Shape; that which is carved or shaped.

n. In law: The limitation of land to certain members of a particular family or line of descent; a prescribed order of successive inheritances, voluntarily created, to keep land in the family undivided; the rule of descent settled for an estate.

n. An estate entailed or limited to particular heirs; an estate given to a man and his heirs.

v. have as a logical consequence

n. the act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple

v. limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs

n. land received by fee tail

v. impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result

"Franklin was never a Pangloss, and his bald statement of what such a belief would entail is the equal of Voltaire's."

entailed    entailing    entails   

necessitate    change    leave    will    bequeath    demesne    land    landed estate    acres    estate   

statute of entail    quasi entail    to bar an entail   

entailed    entailing    entailment   

intaglio    tail    tailye    tailzie    settle    impose    necessitate   

Bayle    Braille    Dail    Dale    Gael    Gail    Galle    Gayle    Hale    Jarrell