entail.
To imply, require, or invoke.
Meaning & usage
To imply, require, or invoke.
This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
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.
To appoint hereditary possessor.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English entaillen, from Old French entaillier, entailler (“to notch”, literally “to cut in”); from prefix en- + tailler (“to cut”), from Late Latin taliare, from Latin talea. Compare late Latin feudum talliatum (“a fee entailed, i.e., curtailed or limited”).
That which is entailed.
That which is entailed. An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
That which is entailed. The rule by which the descent is fixed.
Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English entaille (“carving”), from Old French entaille (“incision”), from the verb entailler. See above.
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