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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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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 :
  • But, as Laura Ann said, it entailed things, notably industry.
  • Extract from : « Four Girls and a Compact » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
  • The rag jammed in the barrel and entailed a hard pull to extract it.
  • Extract from : « The Hound From The North » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • Entailed on the baby about to be born, if he happens to be a boy.
  • Extract from : « Is He Popenjoy? » by Anthony Trollope
  • You know the law about succeeding to peerages and entailed lands?
  • Extract from : « Tristram of Blent » by Anthony Hope
  • But I know too well that he is my father; and that he has entailed on me everlasting sorrow.
  • Extract from : « Ernest Linwood » by Caroline Lee Hentz
  • There was little money, and the estate was entailed on the elder brother.
  • Extract from : « Stories by English Authors: Orient » by Various
  • It also entailed a language of its own, as does each mediation.
  • Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
  • VI., he entailed his several manors and estates on his sons, Anthony and Edmund.
  • Extract from : « The Forest of Dean » by H. G. Nicholls
  • This entailed several exhilarating afternoons out of bounds.
  • Extract from : « Just Patty » by Jean Webster
  • All my estates are entailed, and if you can prove that you are next of kin, you will succeed.
  • Extract from : « In the Eastern Seas » by W.H.G. Kingston

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