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Definition entail
Etymology 1
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”).
Verb
entail (third-person singular simple present entails, present participle entailing, simple past and past participle entailed)
- (transitive) To imply or require.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive, obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
Etymology 2
From Middle English entaille (“carving”), from Old French entaille (“incision”), from the verb entailler. See above.
Noun
entail (plural entails)
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