entail en · VERB · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /enˈtæɪl/ (New-Zealand)
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- /ɪnˈtæɪl/ (Australia)
- /ɛnˈteɪl/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
- /ənˈtæɪl/ (Australia)
- /ənˈtæɪl/ (New-Zealand)
- /ənˈteɪl/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
- /ɪnˈteɪl/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
- /enˈtæɪl/ (Australia)
Etymology
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”).
Meanings
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(transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.
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”).
1997 April 12, Richard Ring, “Secular, abortion-believers are the bloodiest lot”, in The Daily News, page A11:It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse.
2009 July 24, Holland Cotter, “Postcards From Canada’s ‘New North’”, in The New York Times:God's immateriality entails the divine attribute of incorporeality, that God is neither a body nor embodied.
2003, James Porter Moreland, William Lane Craig, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, →ISBN, page 507:This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
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(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.
Apparently, Henry VII visited the city [Bristol] in 1487, "taking care to entail a sumptuary fine on the citizens because their wives dressed too gaudily".
2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 55:Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, 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.
1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 50:I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever.
c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:1754-1762, David Hume, The History of England Allowing them to entail their estates.
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(obsolete, transitive) To appoint hereditary possessor.
To entail him and his heirs unto the crown.
c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| entailing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| entails | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| intail | alternative, archaic | lexicographic | |
| entailed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| entailed | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
Deriveds
entailer · disentail · entailable · entailment
Translations (44)
fr accorder (settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing) · oc implicar (imply or require) · pt pressupor (imply or require) · ru влечь (imply or require) · pl pociągnąć za sobą (imply or require) · fr requérir (imply or require) · de mit sich bringen (imply or require) · oc comportar (imply or require) · sh zahtijevati (imply or require) · de bedingen (imply or require) · pl wiązać się z (imply or require) · de erfordern (imply or require) · oc requèrre (imply or require) · cs obnášet (imply or require) · nl impliceren (imply or require) · nl verlangen (imply or require) · fi tuoda mukanaan (imply or require) · cs mít za následek (imply or require) · cs znamenat (imply or require) · fa مستلزم بودن (imply or require) · fr impliquer (imply or require) · es entrañar (imply or require) · fr comporter (imply or require) · pl przekazywać jako ordynację lub majorat (settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing) · cs nést s sebou (imply or require) · ca implicar (imply or require) · pl przekazać jako ordynację lub majorat (settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing) · fi sisältää (imply or require) · de verursachen (imply or require) · de zur Folge haben (imply or require) · fa ایجاب کردن (imply or require) · es conllevar (imply or require) · pl nieść za sobą (imply or require) · it implicare (imply or require) · io necesigar (imply or require) · nl tot gevolg hebben (imply or require) · ru тре́бовать (imply or require) · fr conférer (settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing) · de nach sich ziehen (imply or require) · pt requerer (imply or require) · pl pociągać za sobą (imply or require) · it comportare (imply or require) · pt implicar (imply or require) · de als unveräußerliches Gut vererben (settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing)