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entailed
[ en-teyld ]
adjective
- involved with or following from something by logical necessity or as a consequence:
Most of the public complied with the curfew restrictions despite the entailed inconvenience.
If the entailed proposition turns out to be false, the theory that generated it must also be false.
- Law. (of real estate) limited to a specified line of heirs, so that it cannot be transferred or bequeathed to anyone else:
This entailed estate has belonged to the family for a period of 300 years.
- Law. descending to a fixed series of possessors, as a title, the crown, etc.:
On the death of his uncle Edward, Duke of York, Richard acquired the entailed title of his grandfather Edmund, Duke of York.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of entail.
Other 51Թ Forms
- ԴDz··ٲ adjective
- ܲ··ٲ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of entailed1
Example Sentences
No further details have been provided on the previous interactions for police, what they entailed or when they took place.
His reactionary brand of “America First” nationalism entailed stoking populist skepticism of technological progress, and centering American interests ahead of what he called the emerging “globalist technocracy.”
Kardashian didn’t share details of what “going ballistic” entailed, but it’s probably a safe bet she didn’t get bloody knuckles from knocking on the motel-room door.
The exhilaration I came to experience entailed a fair amount of exasperation.
“It entailed the two of them educating each other in the art of songwriting and doing so from scratch,” Leslie writes.
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