entail
IPA: ɛntˈeɪɫ
noun
- That which is entailed.
- An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
- The rule by which the descent is fixed.
- (obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
verb
- (transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.
- (transitive) 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 a heritage.
- (transitive, obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
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