ENTAIL
entail
Noun
- That which is entailed. Hence:
- Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
Verb
- To imply or require.
- This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
- 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.
- To appoint hereditary possessor.
- To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
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