entail
verbEtymology
From Middle English entaillen, from Old French entaillier, entailler (“to notch”, literally “to cut in”); from prefix en- + tailler (“to cut”), from Late Latin taliare, from Latin talea. Compare late Latin feudum talliatum (“a fee entailed, i.e., curtailed or limited”).
- derived from talea
- derived from taliare
- derived from entaillier
- inherited from entaillen
Definitions
To imply, require, or invoke.
- This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
- God's immateriality entails the divine attribute of incorporeality, that God is neither a body nor embodied.
To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or…
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.
- 1754-1762, David Hume, The History of England Allowing them to entail their estates.
- I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever.
To appoint hereditary possessor.
- To entail him and his heirs unto the crown.
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That which is entailed.
- A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates.
Delicately carved ornamental work
Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
- A worke of rich entayle.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at entail. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at entail. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at entail
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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