Definition of Entailing

1. Verb. (present participle of entail) ¹

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Definition of Entailing

1. entail [v] - See also: entail

Lexicographical Neighbors of Entailing

ent-kaurene oxidase
ent-kaurenoic acid 13-hydroxylase
entablature
entablatures
entacapone
entactogen
entactogenesis
entactogenic
entactogens
entad
entail
entailed
entailer
entailers
entailing (current term)
entailment
entailments
entails
ental
ental origin
entame
entameba
entamebae
entamebas
entamed
entames
entaming
entamoeba
entamoeba histolytica

Literary usage of Entailing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Essays on the Progress of Nations, in Civilization, Productive Industry by Ezra Champion Seaman (1868)
"Laws of Primogeniture, and the custom of entailing Property. ... The system of entailing lands for an indefinite succession of genera- ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... to obtain a dispensation, nor can they hope to have their marriage considered a putative or apparent one, entailing the legitimation of their children. ..."

3. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1887)
"THEIR ULTIMATE REJECTION entailing A CHANGE OF AUSTRIA'S POLICY. I. NONE must think that, because the war raged, CHAP. Diplomacy had been all this while ..."

4. The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (1907)
"... Table Talk—Miss Aitken—Music— Garrick—The Laird of Col—Boswell's Family History—Johnson and Boswell on the entailing of the Auchinleck Estates—Lord ..."

5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1901)
"The congress expressed a hope that the just repression of the Chinese massacres would not lead to conquests entailing a general war or to enterprise« ..."

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