Entail

Quick meaning: Entail is a verb meaning (transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.

Meaning

(transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
2. That which is entailed.
3. (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.
4. (obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

Example Sentences

This activity will entail careful attention to detail.

I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever.

1754-1762, David Hume, The History of England Allowing them to entail their estates.

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

Word Forms

• entails
• entailing
• entailed

Synonyms for entail

Depending on context, synonyms include implicate, imply.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include imply, implicate, cause, result, presuppose, implied.

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