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Entail   /ɛntˈeɪl/   Listen
verb
Entail  v. t.  (past & past part. entailed; pres. part. entailing)  
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. "Allowing them to entail their estates." "I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever."
2.
To appoint hereditary possessor. (Obs.) "To entail him and his heirs unto the crown."
3.
To cut or carve in an ornamental way. (Obs.) "Entailed with curious antics."



noun
Entail  n.  
1.
That which is entailed. Hence: (Law)
(a)
An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
(b)
The rule by which the descent is fixed. "A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates."
2.
Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. (Obs.) "A work of rich entail."






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"Entail" Quotes from Famous Books



... ingrafted organic tendency, and then puts this person into the hands of teachers incompetent or positively bad, is not what is called sin or transgression of the law necessarily involved in the premises? Is not a Creator bound to guard his children against the ruin which inherited ignorance might entail on them? Would it be fair for a parent to put into a child's hands the title-deeds to all its future possessions, and a bunch of matches? And are not men children, nay, babes, in the eye of Omniscience?—The minister ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... Margaret, I would have come if I had known that you wanted me," said Hugo, wondering whether his tardiness would entail the ...
— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... brother-in-law's services, promised to nominate his son to the first ship fitting out. I have to-day heard that he has been appointed to the 'Ione.' As I am aware that his outfit and allowance while at sea will entail certain expenses, I have requested Commander Curtis to draw on my bankers for the latter, while I beg to enclose a cheque for a hundred pounds, which will cover the cost of his outfit, and it will afford ...
— Ned Garth - Made Prisoner in Africa. A Tale of the Slave Trade • W. H. G. Kingston

... office, came to the conclusion that they had had a real grievance. Their creed, briefly, would disqualify them from marrying, whereas we were committed to the principle that varieties of creed should entail no civil disqualifications. Maine accordingly prepared a bill to remove the injustice. He proposed to legalise the marriage of all persons (not Christian) who objected to conform to the rites of the various religions ...
— The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. - A Judge of the High Court of Justice • Sir Leslie Stephen

... law of entail; she does, however, have her Law of Compensation, and this is the law which holds in order the balance of things. If a man accumulates a vast fortune, he probably also breeds spendthrifts who speedily distribute his riches; if he has great talent, the talent dies with him, for he only inspires ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 4 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters • Elbert Hubbard


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