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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 :
  • I do not court publicity, but I cannot shirk my duty because it entails that.
  • Extract from : « The Crevice » by William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
  • The Ihrm must be put on, and the obligations of abstinence which it entails must be observed.
  • Extract from : « The Faith of Islam » by Edward Sell
  • A choice which entails a concealed consequence is as to that consequence no choice.
  • Extract from : « The Common Law » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • The book also entails conventions of intellectual ownership.
  • Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
  • For the Land's End is a show-place, and we know what that entails.
  • Extract from : « The Cornwall Coast » by Arthur L. Salmon
  • He welcomes the new matter, however, in spite of the labor it entails.
  • Extract from : « The Bibliotaph » by Leon H. Vincent
  • I tell you it entails hardships, and privations, and sufferings which you could not guess at.
  • Extract from : « The Lost Continent » by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
  • How will Miss Perkins like this new relationship and all that it entails?
  • Extract from : « Happy House » by Betsey Riddle, Freifrau von Hutten zum Stolzenberg
  • I know exactly what it is, and the mortification that it entails.
  • Extract from : « Riding for Ladies » by Mrs. Power O'Donoghue
  • It entails a great sacrifice on your part, but the cause which we have at heart is worth it.
  • Extract from : « Albert Ballin » by Bernhard Huldermann

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