entail

== English == === Alternative forms === intail (archaic) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɛnˈteɪl/, /ɪnˈteɪl/, /ənˈteɪl/ Rhymes: -eɪl === Etymology 1 === 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”). ==== Verb ==== entail (third-person singular simple present entails, present participle entailing, simple past and past participle entailed) (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. 1754-1762, David Hume, The History of England Allowing them to entail their estates. (transitive, obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor. (transitive, obsolete) (Can we verify(+) this sense?)To cut or carve in an ornamental way. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English entaille (“carving”), from Old French entaille (“incision”), from the verb entailler. See above. ==== Noun ==== entail (plural entails) 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. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === References === === Anagrams === Latine, Ta-lien, Talien