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Definition of Entailment
1. Noun. Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied). "His resignation had political implications"
Generic synonyms: Illation, Inference
Derivative terms: Entail, Implicate, Imply, Imply
Definition of Entailment
1. n. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
Definition of Entailment
1. Noun. The act of entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Entailment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entailment
Literary usage of Entailment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Law of Real Property by Francis Hilliard (1869)
"entailment—how barred. 6. What may be entailed. 28. Estates tail in the United
States. 12. Rights and duties of tenant in tail. ^ 1. ..."
2. Editorial Comments on the Life and Work of Mary Baker Eddy by Christian Science Publishing Society (1911)
"structed in its progress, but it has steadily advanced, and in some particulars,
especially in the building of churches without an entailment of ..."
3. British Farmer's Magazine (1872)
"THE entailment OF LAND. " There is a very large class of landowners or of persons
standing in the relation of landowners, who are by law incapacitated from ..."
4. Lectures on Slavery, and Its Remedy by Amos Augustus Phelps, Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (1834)
"All this must be said, or the plea cf entailment is worthless. If the entailment
be not of such a kind, ie if slavery be not entailed in such a sense as to ..."
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