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Word definitions for entail in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES involve/entail risk ▪ Investments that provide a high return generally entail more risk. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB also ▪ The latter policy could also entail a drastic withdrawal of royal favour from those who ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entail \En*tail"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entailed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Entailing .] [OE. entailen to carve, OF. entailler. See Entail , n.] To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 the property from being sold off, from Anglo-French taile , Old ...
Usage examples of entail.
And he drew from recollection, the raw enthusiasm of his adolescence, when ideals were a substitute for judgment, life was play, and the future entailed nothing more lively than horse raids and begetting children.
Now this simple attitude entails a number of dangerous consequences: first, an inclination to seek out some cheap form of archaism or some imaginary past forms of happiness that people did not, in fact, have at all.
This axiom entails corollaries, including a free market and limited government intervention.
When the old bibliomaniac died, aged eighty, Halliwell was energetic in repairing the roof of Middle Hill, finding a buyer for it, and breaking the entail on the estate.
Existents and the principles of the Existents, whether they have entailed an infinite or a finite number, bodily or bodiless, or even supposed the Composite to be the Authentic Existent, may well be considered separately with the help of the criticisms made by the ancients upon them.
The various speculations on the subject of the Existents and the principles of the Existents, whether they have entailed an infinite or a finite number, bodily or bodiless, or even supposed the Composite to be the Authentic Existent, may well be considered separately with the help of the criticisms made by the ancients upon them.
I should have preferred to travel by bus to see Margaret, but the journey entailed changing several times and buses are notoriously infrequent on Sundays.
The codicil means that you and I are the last of the entailed line to the fee simple, so that the Mompessons now only hold a base-fee to the property.
He could not leave me anything, as his property was entailed, while his furniture and his library would become the prey of his creditors.
It was not entailed, and in any case there are no Deyres now in existence.
With as unfailing certainty as if they had been regulated by the laws of primogeniture and entail, this estimable clergyman has inherited the gifts and graces of his esteemed father.
A surgical strike would have eliminated Fett without the risk of drawing attention that a bombing raid entailed.
Like the Copernican shift from a geocentric to a heliocentric view of the solar system, the shift from scientific materialism to radical empiricism entails a shift from a matter-centered concept of reality to a holistic view of mental and physical phenomena as dependently related events.
She had then undertaken this vast responsibility, entailing heavy expenditure, till at last, after selling all her diamonds and lace, she had fled to Holland to avoid arrest.
If they make you queen, whatever that might entail and however disgusting some duties might be, Xaefyer has at least promised you will learn all they know.