entail
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ɛnˈteɪl/|/ɪnˈteɪl/|/ənˈteɪl/
美 /ɛnˈteɪl/|/ɪnˈteɪl/|/ənˈteɪl/|/enˈtæɪl/|/ɪnˈtæɪl/|/ənˈtæɪl/
英文释义
名词 n.
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That which is entailed.
— A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates.
- That which is entailed.; An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
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That which is entailed.; The rule by which the descent is fixed.
— All land acquired by inheritance must follow the Khasi law of entail, by which property descends from the mother to the youngest daughter, and again from the latter to her youngest daughter.
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Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
— A worke of rich entayle.
动词 v.
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To imply, require, or invoke.
— This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
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To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
— Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his.
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To appoint hereditary possessor.
— To entail him and his heirs unto the crown.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From Middle English entaillen, from Old French entaillier, entailler (“to notch”, literally “to cut in”); from prefix en- + tailler (“to cut”), from Late Latin taliare, from Latin talea. Compare late Latin feudum talliatum (“a fee entailed, i.e., curtailed or limited”).
词源 2
From Middle English entaille (“carving”), from Old French entaille (“incision”), from the verb entailler. See above.
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