Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See entail.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb See entail, v. t.

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  • verb Archaic form of entail.

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Examples

  • My Email is: petersabine@gmail.com And Phill will get to know what this would intail.

    Script for Aronofsky’s Black Swan is “Very Intriguing…With a Quiet Slow Burn” | /Film 2009

  • Sometimes I thought to throw myself into the Sea, to disappoint his greedy Jaws; but then I remember'd that was Self − Murder, which would intail upon me a miserable Eternity; wherefore, I forc'd my

    Exilius 2008

  • “Yes, indeed, sir,” added Mr. Clarke, “those two malicious old women docked the intail, and left the estate to an alien.”

    The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

  • Now, you know, that in the case of a contingent remainder, the intail may be destroyed by levying a fine, and suffering a recovery, or otherwise destroying the particular estate, before the contingency happens.

    The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

  • It is the word body that makes the intail: there must be a body in the tail, devised to heirs male or female, otherwise it is a fee-simple, because it is not limited of what body.

    The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

  • Subjects, are familiar to their Imaginations, and they have a pious Horror, of consenting to any Thing, which may intail slavery on their Posterity.

    John Adams diary 12, 30 December 1765 - 20 January 1766 1961

  • Europe, the celebrated Tronchin, while at Paris, vehemently declaimed against this false delicacy and aversion against exercise; from which the ladies, especially of the higher rank of life, derived their bad habits of body, their pale color, with all the principles of weakness, and of a puny diseased constitution, which they necessarily intail on their innocent children.

    A Treatise on the Art of Dancing Giovanni-Andrea Gallini 1766

  • "Yes, indeed, sir," added Mr. Clarke, "those two malicious old women docked the intail, and left the estate to an alien."

    The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Tobias George Smollett 1746

  • It is the word body that makes the intail: there must be a body in the tail, devised to heirs male or female, otherwise it is a fee-simple, because it is not limited of what body.

    The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Tobias George Smollett 1746

  • Now, you know, that in the case of a contingent remainder, the intail may be destroyed by levying a fine, and suffering a recovery, or otherwise destroying the particular estate, before the contingency happens.

    The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Tobias George Smollett 1746

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