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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Entail \En*tail"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entailed; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Entailing.] [OE. entailen to carve, OF. entailler. See
     Entail, n.]
     1. 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
        an heritage.
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              Allowing them to entail their estates. --Hume.
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              I here entail
              The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever.
                                                    --Shak.
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     2. To appoint hereditary possessor. [Obs.]
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              To entail him and his heirs unto the crown. --Shak.
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     3. To cut or carve in an ornamental way. [Obs.]
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              Entailed with curious antics.         --Spenser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Entail \En*tail"\, n. [OE. entaile carving, OF. entaille, F., an
     incision, fr. entailler to cut away; pref. en- (L. in) +
     tailler to cut; LL. feudum talliatum a fee entailed, i. e.,
     curtailed or limited. See Tail limitation, Tailor.]
     1. That which is entailed. Hence: (Law)
        (a) An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a
            particular class of issue.
        (b) The rule by which the descent is fixed.
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                  A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of
                  alienating their estates.         --Hume.
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     2. Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. [Obs.] ``A
        work of rich entail.'' --Spenser.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Entail \En*tail"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entailed; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Entailing.] [OE. entailen to carve, OF. entailler. See
     Entail, n.]
     1. 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
        an heritage.
  
              Allowing them to entail their estates. --Hume.
  
              I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs
              forever.                              --Shak.
  
     2. To appoint hereditary possessor. [Obs.]
  
              To entail him and his heirs unto the crown. --Shak.
  
     3. To cut or carve in a ornamental way. [Obs.]
  
              Entailed with curious antics.         --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Entail \En*tail"\, n. [OE. entaile carving, OF. entaille, F., an
     incision, fr. entailler to cut away; pref. en- (L. in) +
     tailler to cut; LL. feudum talliatum a fee entailed, i. e.,
     curtailed or limited. See Tail limitation, Tailor.]
     1. That which is entailed. Hence: (Law)
        (a) An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a
            particular class of issue.
        (b) The rule by which the descent is fixed.
  
                  A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of
                  alienating their estates.         --Hume.
  
     2. Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. [Obs.] ``A
        work of rich entail.'' --Spenser.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  entail
       n 1: land received by fee tail
       2: the act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail
          from a fee simple
       v 1: have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means
            that we have to stop taking long showers" [syn: imply,
             mean]
       2: impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or
          result; "What does this move entail?" [syn: implicate]
       3: limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of
          heirs [syn: fee-tail]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  entail
     Αγγλικά vb.
     συνεπάγομαι (απαιτώ)

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  entail
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.
     2 (lb en 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.
     3 (lb en transitive obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
     4 (lb en transitive obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
     n.
     1 That which is entailed.
     2 # An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular
  class of issue.
     3 # The rule by which the descent is fixed.
     4 (lb en obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  entail
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.
     2 (lb en 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.
     3 (lb en transitive obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
     4 (lb en transitive obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
     n.
     1 That which is entailed.
     2 # An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular
  class of issue.
     3 # The rule by which the descent is fixed.
     4 (lb en obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  entail
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.
     2 (lb en 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.
     3 (lb en transitive obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
     4 (lb en transitive obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
     n.
     1 That which is entailed.
     2 # An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular
  class of issue.
     3 # The rule by which the descent is fixed.
     4 (lb en obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  entail
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.
     2 (lb en 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.
     3 (lb en transitive obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
     4 (lb en transitive obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
     n.
     1 That which is entailed.
     2 # An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular
  class of issue.
     3 # The rule by which the descent is fixed.
     4 (lb en obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  entail
     Englanti vb.
     tuoda mukanaan, sisältää

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  entail
     Engelska vb.
     medföra

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Entail /ɛntˈeɪl/
  الميراث

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  entail /ɛntˈeɪl/ 
  znamenat

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  entail /ɛntˈeɪl/
   [eko] způsobit, znamenat

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  entail /ɛntˈeɪl/
  mít za následek

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  entail /ɛntˈeɪl/ 
  řezba

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  entail /ɛntˈeɪl/
  Fideikommiss  [jur.]
        "disentail an estate"  - ein Fideikommiss auflösen
     Synonyms: estate in fee tail, fee tail, entailed estate, entail estate
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  entail /ɛntˈeɪl/
  
  συνεπάγομαι

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  entail //ənˈteɪl// //ɛnˈteɪl// //ɪnˈteɪl// 
  sisältää, tuoda mukanaan
  to imply or require

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  entail /ɛntˈeɪl/ 
  1. संपत्ति~का~उत्तराधिकार~इस~प्रकार~स्थिर~करना~कि~उत्तराधिकारी~उसको~हस्तांतरित~न~कर~सके
        "What does this move entail?"

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  entail /ɛntˈeɪl/ 
  1. आवश्यक~बना~देना
        "Success in any sphere of life entails hardwork."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  entail /ɛntˈeɪl/
  baština, imati za nužnu posljedicu, određen, očevina, povlačiti za sobom, značiti

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  entail /ɛntˈeɪl/
  1. ôsiség
  2. hitbizomány

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  entail /ɪnˈteɪl/ 
    pociągać za sobą

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  entail /ɛntˈeɪl/
  1. (huk.) ingiltere'de bir mülkün vâris tarafından ferağ veya satışını meneden miras usulu
  2. miras yoluyla intikal eden ve satılması yasak olan gayri menkuller, meşruta.

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  entail /ɛntˈeɪl/
  1. icap ettirmek
  2. (huk.) belirli bir veraset usulüne göre vermek
  3. meşruten vakfetmek. entailment  icap ettirme
  4. meşruten vakfetme
  5. bu suretle vakfedilen mülk.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ɛnˈteɪɫ/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  104 Moby Thesaurus words for "entail":
     add a codicil, affect, allegorize, allude to, argue, assume,
     be indicative of, be significant of, be symptomatic of, bequeath,
     bequeathal, bequest, bespeak, betoken, birthright, borough-English,
     bring, bring to mind, call for, cause, characterize, coheirship,
     comprise, connote, contain, coparcenary, demand, denominate,
     denote, devise, differentiate, disclose, display, execute a will,
     express, gavelkind, give evidence, give rise to, give token,
     hand down, hand on, heirloom, heirship, hereditament, heritable,
     heritage, heritance, highlight, hint, identify, implicate, imply,
     import, impose, incorporeal hereditament, indicate, infer,
     inheritance, insinuate, intimate, involve, law of succession,
     lead to, leave, legacy, line of succession, make a bequest,
     make a will, manifest, mark, mean, mean to say, mode of succession,
     necessitate, note, occasion, pass on, patrimony,
     point indirectly to, postremogeniture, presume, presuppose,
     primogeniture, require, reveal, reversion, show, signify,
     stand for, subsume, succession, suggest, suppose, symptomatize,
     symptomize, take, take for granted, take in, testify, transmit,
     ultimogeniture, will, will and bequeath, will to
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  v. 使必需,使蒙受;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     vt. 使必需,使蒙受,使承担,遗传给
     n. 限定继承权

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