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entail(2)(dictionary)
entail(dictionary)
entail(dictionary)

entail(2) (iou)



entail noun. Also intail. LME.
[from ENTAIL verb2.]
Law. The settlement of the succession of land or other property so that it cannot subsequently be bequeathed or sold but must pass to a designated class of descendants; the line of succession so prescribed. LME.
fig. Restriction to a prescribed succession of people; transmission as an inalienable inheritance; a secured inheritance. LME.
J. Martineau The natural entail of disease and character. J. Bayley Poets oppressed by the modern entail of the poet as self.
The fact of being necessarily consequent upon. M17.
R. W. Hamilton The entail of vice upon the circumstances of the present life.