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Grammar : Verb
Spell : verb en-teyl; noun en-teyl, en-teyl
Phonetic Transcription : verb ɛnˈteɪl; noun ɛnˈteɪl, ˈɛn teɪl

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Définition of entail

Origin :
  • mid-14c., "convert (an estate) into 'fee tail' (feudum talliatum)," from en- (1) "make" + taile "legal limitation," especially of inheritance, ruling who succeeds in ownership and preventing it from being sold off, from Anglo-French taile, Old French taillie, past participle of taillier "allot, cut to shape," from Late Latin taliare. Sense of "have consequences" is 1829, from notion of "inseparable connection." Related: Entailed; entailling.
  • verb require; result in
Example sentences :
  • There, by their law of entail, the same process is unswifter,—yet does it unvary.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • You shall answer to me for that word, though it entail a yet worse dishonour to meet you.
  • Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini
  • As the price of it he was fully prepared for the sacrifice of his own life, which it must entail.
  • Extract from : « The Sea-Hawk » by Raphael Sabatini
  • If that does not entail simony and sacrilege, then such things do not exist at all.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Cesare Borgia » by Raphael Sabatini
  • Who could have thought that the law of entail could sway a mother's affections?
  • Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. » by Charles James Lever
  • I don't believe you can charge your estate against the entail.
  • Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever
  • No man's executorship will ever entail less trouble than mine.
  • Extract from : « A Rent In A Cloud » by Charles James Lever
  • He was eager that I should break the entail, and he was of opinion that it lay in my power to do so.
  • Extract from : « The Return of Sherlock Holmes » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • When one's yacht is in the harbor below, it does not entail much danger.
  • Extract from : « The Lure of the Mask » by Harold MacGrath
  • It cannot, Sir Wycherly; nor with a will, so long as an heir of entail can be found.
  • Extract from : « The Two Admirals » by J. Fenimore Cooper

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