entailed

[ en-teyld ]
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adjective
  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  1. 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
  1. the simple past tense and past participle of entail.

Origin of entailed

1
First recorded in 1525–35; entail + -ed2 for the adjective senses; entail + -ed1 for the verb sense

Other words from entailed

  • non·en·tailed, adjective
  • un·en·tailed, adjective

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