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Definition of Entailing
1. entail [v] - See also: entail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entailing
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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