entail

verb

1. (transitive)To imply, require, or invoke.

   “This activity will entail careful attention to detail.”

   “What mattered to Hegel, and now Leach, is a presupposedly, historically necessary evolution in the structure of political power, entailing the creation of new classes of powerless victims to be sacrificed on the altar of abstract ideological concepts (i.e., “choice”).”

   “God's immateriality entails the divine attribute of incorporeality, that God is neither a body nor embodied.”

   “It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse.”

2. (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.

   “Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.”

   “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.”

   “Apparently, Henry VII visited the city [Bristol] in 1487, "taking care to entail a sumptuary fine on the citizens because their wives dressed too gaudily".”

3. (obsolete, transitive)To appoint hereditary possessor.

   “To entail him and his heirs unto the crown.”

noun

1. That which is entailed.

   “A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates.”

2. That which is entailed.
3. That which is entailed.

   “All land acquired by inheritance must follow the Khasi law of entail, by which property descends from the mother to the youngest daughter, and again from the latter to her youngest daughter.”

4. (obsolete)Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

   “A worke of rich entayle.”