entailed
/ɪntˈeɪld/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.93 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having or resulting from a legal entail; pertaining to inheritance that is limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
adj
That is required logically (by something); That has logical dependencies.
verb
simple past and past participle of entail
Example Sentences
- "The role, therefore, which prevented the alienation of entailed estates being thus broken in upon, fines and recoveries became the common modes of assurance in conveying that species of property."
- "Entailed property must be considered by every one who knows thoroughly what society is, as anti-social. It has been set apart by selfish men for the sole benefit of their favoirite heirs, in order that they might be though its instrumentality enabled to live anti-socially, and to be excempt from the usual operation of the laws which take cognizance of other individuals when they contract debt."
- "As you saw in 1.5.1.3, an entailed interest (before 1926 known as a fee tail) was created by a disposition in favour of 'the heirs of the body' of a specified person."
- "Needless to say, the unexplained emergent phenomenon (and the entailed system whose functions can explain it) or the not-yet-existing artifact (and the system required for its construction) can itself be anything from a very simple to a very complex entity."
- "The relation of Keeper is an entailed role of pet dog, inasmuch as every pet dog has someone who is its keeper."
- "PLC processes can be very entailed and question all parts of the organization, and some are light."
Inflected Forms
more entailed (comparative)
most entailed (superlative)