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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



... young creature that he attempted to save her from her fate of being immured in convent walls by offering to apply to the pope for a dispensation releasing the mother from her promise. But the duchess desperately combated this idea. Her wild laments, that to break her vow would entail her forfeiture of eternal salvation, her protestations, her tears, her entreaties, at last prevailed upon the princess to join the Order of the Gray Sisters. For a short space all seemed to go well. The fervid heart of the royal nun was apparently beating ...
— The Gray Nun • Nataly Von Eschstruth
... back to Maudesley," he said. "If you can manage to take me there, Mr. Daphney, and look after me until I've got over the effects of this accident, I shall be very happy to make you any compensation you please for whatever loss your absence from Rugby might entail upon you." ...
— Henry Dunbar - A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... these stipulations. He had calculated to extort a price for his information only. The proving of his charge was a matter which would entail time and trouble, and something else which he did not care to contemplate; besides, he wanted to get away. His recollection of his recent interview with Iredale was still with him. And he remembered well the rancher's attitude. ...
— The Hound From The North • Ridgwell Cullum
... motives of exertion. Yet these are not the less our duties; nor is our part fitly sustained upon the earth, unless the range of our intended and deliberate usefulness include, not only the companions but the successors, of our pilgrimage. God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after us, and whose names are already written in the book of creation, as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do or neglect, to involve them ...
— Selections From the Works of John Ruskin • John Ruskin
... Kinship is always a matter of blood. There is a double kinship, through the blood of inheritance, and the blood of sacrifice. Our inherited kinship of blood has been lost. But His blood of sacrifice has made a new kinship. We had broken the entail of our inheritance clean beyond mending. We were outcasts by our own act. But He cast in. His lot with us, and so drew us back and up and in. He made a new entail through His blood. And that new entail is as unbreakable as the old broken one is unmendable. And so we come into ...
— Quiet Talks on John's Gospel • S. D. Gordon


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