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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
intail .
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Examples
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To this instance I must add, that I have known two families, in which, on account of an intailed estate in expectation, a male heir was most eagerly desired by the father; and on the contrary, girls were produced to the seventh in one, and to the ninth in another; and then they had each of them
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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John as aforesaid I give unto my Grandson John my said son John's son however to be annexed both to all the said slaves and their increase unto the Lands & plantations that are intailed upon my said son John & to continue annexed & to go with the Lands according to the intent
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All these things intailed to circumcision; that was the initiating ordinance; that gave being of membership; that was it without which it was positively commanded none should be received into fellowship (Josh 5).
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658
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It can get pretty intailed, with possible interations,
CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries vkenyen 2010
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If an eftate-tail is created by a& of parliament, it is fubje& to fuch bars as other lands intailed are.
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Though by his royal authority, with the co'nfcnt of Landeric, bifhop of Paris, he exempted this convent from all ecclefiaftical jurisdiction, yet the monks gave out, that, for this act of impiety, he became difor - vlered in his fenfes, and that the Weaknefs and ftupidity of the father became intailed upon his defcendants 6.
The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time; 1782
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- page (31) - intailed upon my said son John and his male issue
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And it is my further will that if my said Daughter Anne be living at the time of my decease there be five hundred pounds sterling paid to her by my executors three years after my decease And I do also given unto my said daughter Anne forty pounds sterling to be in lieu & satisfaction for her claim to my negro wench Martha being unwilling she shall be parted from her husband, The said forty pounds to be laid out in negroes to be intailed upon her my said
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