entail

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  1. transitive verb To have, impose, or require as a necessary accompaniment or consequence: The investment entailed a high risk. The proposition X is a rose entails the proposition X is a flower because all roses are flowers.
  2. transitive verb To limit the inheritance of (property) to a specified succession of heirs.
  3. transitive verb To bestow or impose on a person or a specified succession of heirs.
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  1. Middle English entaillen, to limit inheritance to specific heirs : en-, intensive pref.; see en-1 + taille, tail; see tail2.

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  1. Also intail; from Middle English entailen, from Old French entailler, French entailler = Provencal entalhar, entaillar = Spanish entallar = Portuguese entalhar = Italian intagliare, from Middle Latin intaliare, *intaleare, cut into, carve, from Latin in, in, + Middle Latin taliare, taleare (later F. tailler, etc.), cut: see tail; tally.
  2. Formerly also intail; from Middle English entaile, entayle, from Old French entattle, French entaille (Middle Latin intalia), feminine, = Provencal entalh = Old Spanish entalle = Portuguese entalho = Italian intaglio (later English intaglio, q. v.), masculine, a cutting, cut, notch, groove; from the verb.
 

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