Entail

Noun

 * 1) That which is entailed. Hence:
 * An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
 * The rule by which the descent is fixed.
 * 1) * A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates. &mdash; David Hume.
 * 2)  Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
 * 3) * A work of rich entail. &mdash; Edmund Spenser.

Verb

 * 1)  To imply or require.
 * This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
 * 1)   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.
 * 2) * Allowing them to entail their estates. &mdash; David Hume.
 * 3) * I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever. &mdash; Shakespeare
 * 4)    To appoint hereditary possessor.
 * 5) * To entail him and his heirs unto the crown. &mdash; Shakespeare
 * 6)    To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
 * 7) * Entailed with curious antics. &mdash; Edmund Spenser.

Derived terms

 * entailment

Thesaurus
add a codicil, affect, allegorize, allude to, argue, assume, be indicative of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, bequeath, bequeathal, bequest, bespeak, betoken, birthright, borough-English, bring, bring to mind, call for, cause, characterize, coheirship, comprise, connote, contain, coparcenary, demand, denominate, denote, devise, differentiate, disclose, display, execute a will, express, gavelkind, give evidence, give rise to, give token, hand down, hand on, heirloom, heirship, hereditament, heritable, heritage, heritance, highlight, hint, identify, implicate, imply, import, impose, incorporeal hereditament, indicate, infer, inheritance, insinuate, intimate, involve, law of succession, lead to, leave, legacy, line of succession, make a bequest, make a will, manifest, mark, mean, mean to say, mode of succession, necessitate, note, occasion, pass on, patrimony, point indirectly to, postremogeniture, presume, presuppose, primogeniture, require, reveal, reversion, show, signify, stand for, subsume, succession, suggest, suppose, symptomatize, symptomize, take, take for granted, take in, testify, transmit, ultimogeniture, will, will and bequeath, will to

Etymology
From entaile: from  entaille, French, an incision, from entailler:; prefix en-  Latin + tailler:; late Latin feudum talliatum a fee entailed, i. e., curtailed or limited.

Verb

 * Finnish: sisältää, tuoda mukanaan


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Anagrams

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