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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary en·tail
ETYMOLOGY Middle English entailen, entaillen, from en- (I) + taile, taille limitation — more at tail DATE 14th century 1. to restrict (property) by limiting the inheritance to the owner's lineal descendants or to a particular class thereof 2. a. to confer, assign, or transmit as if by entail : fasten entailed on them indelible disgrace — Robert Browning b. to fix (a person) permanently in some condition or status entail him and his heirs unto the crown — Shakespeare 3. to impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result the project will entail considerable expense
DATE 14th century 1. a. an entailing especially of lands b. an entailed estate 2. something transmitted as if by entail English Etymology entail mid-14c., "convert (an estate) into 'fee tail' (feudum talliatum)," from en- "make" + taile "legal limitation," especially of inheritance, ruling who succeeds in ownership and preventing it from being sold off, from Anglo-Fr. taile, from O.Fr . taillie, pp. of taillier "allot, cut to shape," from L.L. taliare. Sense of "have consequences" is 1829, from notion of "inseparable connection."http://O.Fr Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 entail en·tail / in5teil / verb to involve sth that cannot be avoided 牵涉；须要；使必要 SYN involve :
▪ [VN] The job entails a lot of hard work. 这工作需要十分艰苦的努力。 The girls learn exactly what is entailed in caring for a newborn baby. 姑娘们正好在学怎样照看新生儿。 ▪ [V -ing] It will entail driving a long distance every day. 这意味着每天都要长途开车。 ▪ [also VN -ing] Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English entail verb ADV. actually What does the job actually entail? | inevitably, necessarily Restructuring will inevitably entail compromises. OLT entail verb ⇨ mean 3 Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged en·tail I. \ə̇n.ˈtāl, en.-, chiefly before pause or consonant -āəl\ transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English entailen, entaillen, from en- (I) + taile, taille limitation — more at tail (limitation)1. a. : to restrict (property) as to course of descent upon the owner's death by limiting the inheritance to the owner's lineal descendants or to a particular class thereof (as to his male children) b. : to convert (an estate in certain property) into a fee-tail estate :create such an estate in (property) c. : to settle (land) upon a person in a way designed to preserve for possession in his family as far as legally possible 2. a. : to confer, assign, or transmit as if by entail : burden indefinitely with < lament the stupid commonplace and often ribald names entailed upon the rivers and other features of the great West — Washington Irving > : fasten < blood revenge … could be entailed for many generations — A.P.Davies > — often used with on or upon < entailed on them indelible disgrace — Robert Browning > < helped to entail upon them the ridicule of their neighbors — Tobias Smollett > b. obsolete (1) : to attach inseparably to something : tack (2) : to fix (a person) permanently in some status or condition :make (a person) the hereditary successor < entail him and his heirs unto the crown — Shakespeare > < the method entailed upon medieval thought by its scholastic … character — H.O.Taylor > 3. a. : to impose, involve, or require as a necessary accompaniment or result < the work entails expense > < political democracy entails a cultural democracy — K.I.L.Lansner > < believed that the wrong faith would entail hellfire — R.H.Bainton > b. : to imply with strict logical necessity < a sentence s is said to entail a sentence t when the proposition expressed by t is deducible from the proposition expressed by s — A.J.Ayer > II. \“, ˈen.ˌt-\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English entaile, entaille, from entailen, entaillen, v. 1. a. : an entailing especially of lands : a settling of an estate tail b. : an estate settled in fee tail or limited in descent to a particular class of issue c. : the rule by which the descent is fixed : the fixed line of devolution 2. a. : irremediable or assured transmission (as of a good or bad quality) < the entail of ignorance and vice on children born in such surroundings > b. : something (as a quality) that is transmitted as if by entail : legacy , inheritance < the doctrine … that every child coming into the world is born with an entail of sin — H.G.Goodykoontz > c. : logical or necessary consequence or sequence < an evil with a most unfortunate entail for the future — E.D.Soper > |
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