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• intail (archaic)

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /ɛnˈteɪl/, /ɪnˈteɪl/, /ənˈteɪl/
• (General Australian) IPA: /enˈtæɪl/, /ɪnˈtæɪl/, /ənˈtæɪl/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /enˈtæɪl/, /ənˈtæɪl/
• 韻: -eɪl

語源 1

From 中期英語 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”).

動詞

entail (third-person singular simple present entails, present participle entailing, simple past and past participle entailed)

1. (transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.

   This activity will entail careful attention to detail.

   • 1997 April 12, Richard Ring, “Secular, abortion-believers are the bloodiest lot”, in The Daily News, page A11:

     What mattered to Hegel, and now Leach, is a presupposedly, historically necessary evolution in the structure of political power, entailing the creation of new classes of powerless victims to be sacrificed on the altar of abstract ideological concepts (i.e., “choice”).

   • 2003, James Porter Moreland, William Lane Craig, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, →ISBN, page 507:

     God's immateriality entails the divine attribute of incorporeality, that God is neither a body nor embodied.

   • 2009 July 24, Holland Cotter, “Postcards From Canada’s ‘New North’”, in The New York Times‎:

     It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse.

2. (transitive) 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.
   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 50:

     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.

   • 1754-1762, David Hume, The History of England

     Allowing them to entail their estates.

   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever.

   • 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 55:

     Apparently, Henry VII visited the city [Bristol] in 1487, "taking care to entail a sumptuary fine on the citizens because their wives dressed too gaudily".

3. (transitive, obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     To entail him and his heirs unto the crown.

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 entaille (“carving”), from Old French entaille (“incision”), from the verb entailler. See above.

名詞

entail (plural entails)

1. That which is entailed.
   • 1754–1762, David Hume, “(please specify the page)”, in [The History of England ], volume (please specify |volume=1 to 6), London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […]:

     A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates.

   1. An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
   2. The rule by which the descent is fixed.
      • 1907, Philip Richard Thornhagh Gurdon, The Khasis, page 88:

        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.

2. (obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4:

     A worke of rich entayle.

派生語

参照

• “entail”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Latine, Ta-lien, Talien