entail
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Synonyms: entrail, ventail, pentail, entoil, ental, e-tail, e tail, intail, enjail
Antonyms: entrail, ventail, pentail, entoil, ental, e-tail, e tail, intail, enjail
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Verb
- To imply, require, or invoke.
- This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
- 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.
- To appoint hereditary possessor.
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.
- An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
- The rule by which the descent is fixed.
- Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
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