- IPA(key): /ɛnˈteɪl/,/ɪnˈteɪl/,/ənˈteɪl/
- Rhymes:-eɪl
FromMiddle Englishentaillen, fromOld Frenchentaillier,entailler(“to notch”, literally“to cut in”); from prefixen- +tailler(“to cut”), fromLate Latintaliare, fromLatintalea. Compare lateLatinfeudum talliatum(“a fee entailed, i.e., curtailed or limited”).
entail (third-person singular simple presententails,present participleentailing,simple past and past participleentailed)
- (transitive) Toimply,require, orinvoke.
This activity willentail careful attention to detail.
1997 April 12, Richard Ring, “Secular, abortion-believers are the bloodiest lot”, inThe Daily News,pageA11:What mattered to Hegel, and now Leach, is a presupposedly, historically necessary evolution in the structure of political power,entailing the creation of new classes of powerless victims to be sacrificed on the altar of abstract ideological concepts (i.e., “choice”).
2009 July 24, Holland Cotter, “Postcards From Canada’s ‘New North’”, inThe New York Times[1]:It alsoentailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse.
- (transitive) Tosettle orfixinalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line ofdescendants; -- said especially of an estate; tobestow as aheritage.
1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, inPride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] forT[homas] Egerton, […],→OCLC,page50:Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, wasentailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.
- 1754-1762,David Hume,The History of England
- Allowing them toentail their estates.
c.1591–1592 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene i]:I hereentail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever.
2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, inRAIL, number974, page55:Apparently, Henry VII visited the city [Bristol] in 1487, "taking care toentail a sumptuary fine on the citizens because their wives dressed too gaudily".
- (transitive, obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
c.1591–1592 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene i]:Toentail him and his heirs unto the crown.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
imply or require
- Catalan:implicar (ca)
- Czech:mít za následek,znamenat (cs),nést s sebou impf,obnášet (cs) impf
- Dutch:verlangen (nl),impliceren (nl),tot gevolg hebben
- Finnish:sisältää (fi),tuodamukanaan
- French:comporter (fr),impliquer (fr),requérir (fr)
- German:bedingen (de),mit sich bringen,nach sich ziehen (de),verursachen (de),zur Folge haben,erfordern (de)
- Ido:necesigar (io)
- Italian:comportare (it),implicare (it)
- Occitan:implicar (oc),comportar (oc),requèrre
- Persian:مستلزم بودن(mostalzem budan),ایجاب کردن(ijâb kardan)
- Portuguese:implicar (pt),pressupor (pt),requerer (pt)
- Russian:тре́бовать (ru)(trébovatʹ),влечь (ru)(vlečʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:zahtijevati (sh)
- Spanish:conllevar (es),entrañar (es)
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settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing
FromMiddle Englishentaille(“carving”), fromOld Frenchentaille(“incision”), from the verbentailler. See above.
entail (pluralentails)
- That which is entailed.
- Anestate in fee entailed, orlimited in descent to a particularclass ofissue.
- Therule by which thedescent isfixed.
1907, Philip Richard Thornhagh Gurdon,The Khasis, page88:All land acquired by inheritance must follow the Khasi law ofentail, by which property descends from the mother to the youngest daughter, and again from the latter to her youngest daughter.
- (obsolete) Delicatelycarvedornamental work;intaglio.
