† entailn.¹

Forms: Middle English entaille, Middle English–1600s entaile, entayle, (Middle English Scottish eyntayill, Middle English entaylle, enteyle).

Etymology: < Old French entaille (feminine), noun of action < entailler entail v.¹; compare Provençal entalh, Old Spanish entalle, Portuguese entalho, Italian intaglio (masculine), of similar meaning.

Obsolete.

I. Cutting, carving; pattern or shape.

1. Ornamental carving; sculpture. Also concrete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun]

entailc1300

sculpture1390

carving1531

engraving1552

statuary1563

engravery1566

insculption1599

scalpture1656

tomice1662

manusculpture1704

tooling1815

sculpturing1842

sculpting1876

mudding1892

machine sculpture1970

c1300 K. Alis. 4671 A schryne, Of entaile riche and fyne.

c1400 Rowland & O. 412 Ane helme of riche entayle, Of precyouse stanes the appayrayle.

1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. vi A ryche ymage of sylver..of meruaylous entayle.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) xliii. sig. Hv Foure condytes meruaylously wrought by subtyll entayle.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1650 Caruen in Cristall by crafte of Entaile.

concrete.c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) ii. xv. 54 b Nothing seyn of all the whole entaile.

2. transferred. ‘Cut’, fashion of a garment; shape, pattern, outline; figure, stature. Also, guise, semblance.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > [noun]

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shapec1050

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fashionc1320

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plasma1712

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c1320 Seuyn Sag. (W.) 2671 Honge we him in his entaile.

c1325 Poems temp. Edw. II (Percy) lvi A new entaile have thei i-fend..The raye is turned overthwart.

c1400 Rom. Rose 1081 Aboute hir nekke of gentyl entayle Was shete the riche chevesaile.

c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) ii. xxvii. 63 a Among which hilles..Been craggy roches most hidous of entaile.

?1577 F. T. Debate Pride & Lowlines sig. Ciiii^v Another was there much of his entaile.

3. The phrase of good (rich) entail (sense 1, 2) was apparently taken as = ‘of good quality’. Hence (persons) of entaile: of ‘quality’ or rank.

ΚΠ

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 730 A smot him on þe helm an heȝ þat was of god entaille.

c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 3608 With ix hundreth knightes of good entaile.

c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 188 Cytryne of colour, lyke garnettes of entayle.

a1450 Le Morte Arth. 3273 And yiffe we may wyth spechys spede Wyth trew trowthes of entayle.

II. Reckoning by tallies.

4. The keeping accounts by tallies.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > keeping accounts by tallies

entailc1488

c1488 Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. 70 He [Chief Pantrer] receivythe the brede of the Sergeaunt of the bake-house by entayle.

c1488 Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. 77 Ale or beer..pourveyede by entayle.

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entailn.²

Brit.

/ᵻnˈteɪl/,

/ɛnˈteɪl/, U.S.

/ˈɛnˌteɪl/

Forms: see entail v.²

Etymology: < entail v.²

Law.

The action of entailing; the state of being entailed.

1. The settlement of the succession of a landed estate, so that it cannot be bequeathed at pleasure by any one possessor; the rule of descent settled for any estate; the fixed or prescribed line of devolution. Also in phrases: to break, cut (off) the entail, statute of entails, entail male.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > entailing or entail

tail1373

entailc1380

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entailinga1538

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c1380 [see sense 2a].

1467 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 47 I wylle that myn executo^rs and myn feffeis see the best mene that they can in restoryng ageyn to the olde intaile of the seid place.

1467 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 50 Not conteynyd in myne dede of entayle.

1584 H. Llwyd & D. Powel Hist. Cambria 138 To his heires male by an especial Entaile aforesaid.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 281 For a Cardceue he will..cut th' intaile from all remainders.

1660 R. Burney Κέρδιστον Δῶρον 54 Transcendent to the ordinary course of the Lawes in passing of Fines and cutting of the Entails.

1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses iv. 16 His Sister Peg's Name being in the Entail, he could not make a thorough Settlement without her Consent.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxviii. 405 My Father too..might have cut off the Intail.

1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. (1802) I. i. 223 By introducing entails..to render their possessions unalienable and everlasting.

1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. viii. 142 This son was to join in cutting off the entail .

1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. 252 The statute of entails..is also to be referred to this reign.

1852 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. II. iii. 54 Entails were not perpetual; but land was always in the market.

2. transferred and figurative in various senses:

a. The securing (an office, dignity, privilege) to a predetermined line of successors; a predetermined order of succession.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [noun] > sequence or order of succession

entailc1380

sequence1592

series1594

sequel1615

succession1708

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 391 Men supposen þis entaile [of tithes] was not expresly confermyd bi criste.

a1555 J. Bradford in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xlv. 131 Thoughe the Quene..disheryt the right Heyres apparent, or breake her Father's Intayle.

1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 12 So as the Entaile might seeme rather a personall favour to him, and his children, than a total Dis-inherison to the House of York.

a1699 E. Stillingfleet Serm. II. i. (R.) How comes the entail to be made to all his [St. Peter's] successors?

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xv. 532 Harley..zealously supported the entail of the crown on the princess Sophia.

b. The transmission, as an inalienable inheritance, of qualities, conditions, obligations, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > custom of a society or group > transmission of

entail1706

1706 D. Defoe Jure Divino viii. 30 They're Traytors else to the Entails of Sense.

1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 63 An entail of dependence is a bad reward of merit.

1866 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 1st Ser. 218 The natural entail of disease and character.

1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such ii. 36 That entail of social ignorance.

c. Necessary sequence.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] > logical or necessary consequence

entail1662

emanation1710

sequence1861

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vi. §10 If God by his immediate hand of providence did not cut off the entail of effects upon their natural causes.

a1847 R. W. Hamilton Rewards & Punishm. (1853) ii. 82 The entail of vice upon the circumstances of the present life.

d. concrete. That which is entailed; a secured inheritance.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited > a secured inheritance

entail1822

1822 Ld. Byron Werner ii. ii. 305 Ignorance And dull suspicion are a part of his Entail will last him longer than his lands.

†3. plural. (See quot. 1790; apparently humorous use of phrase belonging to 1.)

ΚΠ

1790 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. 151 When they [sc. the reapers] came near the finish, they cut off each other's ‘entails’,—or ends of the lands: the whole finishing together.

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† entailv.¹

Forms: Middle English entaille, entaylle, Scottish entailze, (1500s entally), Middle English–1600s entaile. Also 1500s intaile, intayle.

Etymology: < Old French entaille-r, corresponding to Provençal entalhar, entaillar, Spanish entallar, Italian intagliare < late Latin intaleāre, < in into + taleāre (French tailler) to cut.

Obsolete.

a. transitive. To carve, sculpture; to make carvings upon, ornament with carvings; to portray or represent by carving.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > sculpt or carve [verb (transitive)]

behewc1314

entailc1394

chisel1517

to cut out1548

insculp1578

cut1600

sculpturea1684

sculp1784

sculpt1864

under-carve1904

c1394 P. Pl. Crede 167 A curious cros craftly entayled.

c1400 Rom. Rose 140 Wel entailled With many riche portraitures.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde iii. xi. 158 In thyse grete colompnes or pylers..were entaylled & grauen the vii scyences.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 355/3 They wold not entaylle ne kerue hit [an ydolle].

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. i. 117 Plate..curiously wrought and entallied.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iii. sig. P2^v Golden bendes, which were entayld With curious antickes.

1637 J. Anchoran Porta Linguarum 183 A Carver or an image maker, graves, carves, and entailes a statue.

absolute.1598 Chaucers Dreame in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 355^v/1 Couth wel entaile in Imagery.

b. transferred with reference to embroidery.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > embroider or ornament with sewing

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embroche1611

be-embroider1614

acupinge1623

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 612 Tortors & trulofeȝ, entayled so þyk.

c. In passive (cf. mould v.¹, carve v., etc.) of a living body.

ΚΠ

?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 477 in Shorter Poems (1967) 36 His body weil entalȝeit [1579 Edinb. entailȝeit] euery steid.

2. To engrave in intaglio. rare as distinct sense.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > engrave in intaglio [verb (transitive)]

entaila1552

intaglio1847

to cut in1883

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) VII. 49 (Cornelines) and other Stonys wel entaylid for Seales.

1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. xvii. f. 47^v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Costlye stones already entailled for Seales.

a. To cut into, make an incision in.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (transitive)]

snithec725

carvec1000

cutc1275

slitc1275

hag1294

ritc1300

chop1362

slash1382

cut and carvea1398

flash?a1400

flish?a1400

slenda1400

race?a1425

raise?a1425

razea1425

scotch?c1425

ochec1440

slitec1450

ranch?a1525

scorchc1550

scalp1552

mincea1560

rash?1565

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sneck1817

tame1847

bite-

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxvi. xi. 259 Leafed after the manner of passe-flowers..but that they be entailed or endented deeper.

b. absol.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > become or make perforated [verb (intransitive)] > make (a) hole(s) > with something sharp > as a sharp instrument

biteOE

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stab1897

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R6 The mortall steele despiteously entayld Deepe in their flesh.

4. To cut notches in a ‘tally’; to keep an account by tally.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (intransitive)] > keep accounts by tally

entailc1488

c1488 Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. 78 The yomen of the pycher house..intayle with both buttlers of wyne & ale.

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entailv.²

Brit.

/ᵻnˈteɪl/,

/ɛnˈteɪl/, U.S.

/ˈɛnˌteɪl/

Forms: α. Middle English–1500s entaile, Middle English entayle, 1600s– entail. β. Middle English–1500s intaile, intayle, 1600s–1700s intail.

Etymology: < en- prefix¹ + Anglo-Norman tailé tail adj. or taile , noun, entail. In legal Anglo-Latin (16th cent.) intalliāre . See further under tail adj.

1. Law. transitive. To convert (an estate) into a ‘fee tail’ (feudum talliatum); to settle (land, an estate, etc.) on a number of persons in succession, so that it cannot be bequeathed at pleasure by any one possessor. Const. on, to, upon.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > settle (property) [verb (transitive)] > entail

entail1380

tail1425

tailyec1540

society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > compel [verb (transitive)] > force or impose something upon

to lay on11..

join1303

taxa1375

intruse?a1500

oversetc1500

beforcec1555

impose1581

threap1582

fasten1585

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thrust1597

enforcea1616

forcea1616

entail1670

top1682

trump1694

push1723

coerce1790

press1797

inflict1809

levy1863

octroy1865

wish1915

1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 390 Lande entaylid by mannys lawe.

1466 Mann. & Househ. Exp. (1841) 341 The said Herry schalle bye and entayle v. markes worthe of londe to hym and his eyres.

1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 60 Preamble Londes and tenementis whiche were intailed to him and to his Auncestres.

1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 56* What Landes to sell, howe they were eyther tyed by Statute, or Intailde?

1642 T. Fuller Holy State i. xiv. 45 The old man being onely Tenant for life, and the lands entaild on one young Gentleman.

1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. vi. 245 An old craft of the Clergy to secure thir Church Lands, by entailing them on some Saint.

1765 Act 5 Geo. III c. 26 Pream. [They] should convey, settle, and intail the lands so to be purchased.

1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 244 The house and park..were entailed on a distant cousin.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xi. 194 They cannot sell them [sc. houses], because they are entailed.

a. transferred and figurative. To bestow or confer as if by entail; to cause to descend to a designated series of possessors; to bestow as an inalienable possession.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > cause to be possessed > give as inalienable possession

entail?1504

society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [verb (transitive)] > bestow as inalienable possession

entail?1504

?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. gg.ii The other gardyn is celestyall..And is entayled to vs in generall.

1513 T. More Hist. Edward V 3 The Crowne of the Realme [was] entayled to the Duke of Yorke and his Heires.

1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet B Neuer entaile thy wit to the eldest.

1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 i. i. 195 I heere intaile the Crowne To thee and to thine heires.

1630 W. Prynne God no Impostor (rev. ed.) 2 The benefits of the Gospell are intayled vpon them alone.

1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. xii. 36 Nor then had the Pope the whole power herein intailed to his Tripple Crowne.

1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) ii. 57 Bishops might have entailed their Sees to their Kinred or Friends.

1712 A. Pope tr. Statius First Bk. Thebais in Misc. Poems 12 Thou Fury, then, some lasting Curse entail.

1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. ii. iii. 113 Can I bear to think of entailing Beggary on the Posterity of my Amelia?

1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames Pref. p. vii Intails distress and obloquy on an innocent offspring.

1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 214 Luther..entailed upon us the responsibility of private judgement.

†b. In occasional uses: To make (a person) ‘heir’ to a possession, condition, etc.; to cause a person to become permanently (something). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > transform [verb (transitive)]

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forshapeOE

workOE

awendOE

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transfashion1601

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fordo1624

entail1628

transmutate1632

distila1637

to make much (also little, something, nothing, etc.) of1637

transqualify1652

unconvert1654

simulate1658

spend1668

transverse1687

hocus-pocus1774

mutate1796

fancy1801

to change around1871

metamorphosize1888

catalyse1944

morph1996

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxxvi. sig. O8^v Either of these intaile a mans mind to miserie.

a1659 F. Osborne Characters (1673) 639 For he did undo By writing them, what Wit entayl'd thee to.

1683 in Pennsylvania Arch. (1852) I. 79 Amount to soe vast a sume as will entail me yo^r Perpetuall Debtor.

†3. To attach as an inseparable appendage to, upon, an estate or inheritance; hence gen. to ‘tack on’, attach. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes 63 It hath pleased M. Printer..to intaile a vaine title to my name.

1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. A4^v All his mad tricks were to his land intaild, And you are heire to al.

1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 33 Upon the latter of which the Musulman empire is entayld.

1669 J. Bunyan Holy Citie 89 His Name was always so entailed to that Doctrine.

1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. xi. 188 The allotment of Food is..entailed to the very Constitution and Nature of Animals.

4. To impose (inconvenience, expense, labour) upon a person. Chiefly said of circumstances or actions; hence occasionally of personal agents.

ΚΠ

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xix. sig. Hh6^v Yet Custom has so Entail'd some ways of Expence upon some Stations in the World.

1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xlii. 138 What an enormous expence is entailed..upon this unhappy country.

1826 W. Scott Provinc. Antiq. Which shall, so long as the building stands, entail disgrace on all who have had to do with it.

1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. i. 3 The long wars..which a disputed succession entailed on the country.

1851 W. E. Gladstone State Prosecutions Neapolitan Govt. 35 I..shall not entail upon your Lordship the charge of handing to and fro replications and rejoinders.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §16. 104 The great amount of labour which this [assistance] might entail upon him.

5. Simply. To bring on by way of necessary consequence. Of premises: To involve logically, necessitate (a particular conclusion).

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > bring about as a consequence or entail

makeOE

haveOE

drawa1400

to draw inc1405

to leave behind1424

goc1449

to draw on1572

train1579

carry1581

beara1616

to lead toa1770

evolve1816

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mean1841

issue1842

subinduce1855

1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More I. 267 A conquest which brought with it no evil and entailed no regret.

1839 E. D. Clarke Trav. Var. Countries (new ed.) 134/1 The scheme..was found to entail greater evils than those he was labouring to put down.

1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. iii. 32 The weight of business which this present affliction entails.

1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith Introd. 4 That failure would not entail the conclusion that, etc.

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单词	entail
释义	† entailn.¹ Forms: Middle English entaille, Middle English–1600s entaile, entayle, (Middle English Scottish eyntayill, Middle English entaylle, enteyle). Etymology: < Old French entaille (feminine), noun of action < entailler entail v.¹; compare Provençal entalh, Old Spanish entalle, Portuguese entalho, Italian intaglio (masculine), of similar meaning. Obsolete. I. Cutting, carving; pattern or shape. 1. Ornamental carving; sculpture. Also concrete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] entailc1300 sculpture1390 carving1531 engraving1552 statuary1563 engravery1566 insculption1599 scalpture1656 tomice1662 manusculpture1704 tooling1815 sculpturing1842 sculpting1876 mudding1892 machine sculpture1970 c1300 K. Alis. 4671 A schryne, Of entaile riche and fyne. c1400 Rowland & O. 412 Ane helme of riche entayle, Of precyouse stanes the appayrayle. 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. vi A ryche ymage of sylver..of meruaylous entayle. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) xliii. sig. Hv Foure condytes meruaylously wrought by subtyll entayle. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1650 Caruen in Cristall by crafte of Entaile. concrete.c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) ii. xv. 54 b Nothing seyn of all the whole entaile. 2. transferred. ‘Cut’, fashion of a garment; shape, pattern, outline; figure, stature. Also, guise, semblance. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [noun] hue971 shapec1050 form1297 casta1300 entailc1320 fashionc1320 featurec1325 tailc1325 suitc1330 figuringc1385 figure1393 makinga1398 fasurec1400 facea1402 makec1425 proportionc1425 figuration?a1475 protracture1551 physiognomy1567 set1567 portraiturea1578 imagerya1592 model1597 plasmature1610 figurature1642 scheme1655 morphosis1675 turn1675 plasma1712 mould1725 format1936 c1320 Seuyn Sag. (W.) 2671 Honge we him in his entaile. c1325 Poems temp. Edw. II (Percy) lvi A new entaile have thei i-fend..The raye is turned overthwart. c1400 Rom. Rose 1081 Aboute hir nekke of gentyl entayle Was shete the riche chevesaile. c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) ii. xxvii. 63 a Among which hilles..Been craggy roches most hidous of entaile. ?1577 F. T. Debate Pride & Lowlines sig. Ciiii^v Another was there much of his entaile. 3. The phrase of good (rich) entail (sense 1, 2) was apparently taken as = ‘of good quality’. Hence (persons) of entaile: of ‘quality’ or rank. ΚΠ c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 730 A smot him on þe helm an heȝ þat was of god entaille. c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 3608 With ix hundreth knightes of good entaile. c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 188 Cytryne of colour, lyke garnettes of entayle. a1450 Le Morte Arth. 3273 And yiffe we may wyth spechys spede Wyth trew trowthes of entayle. II. Reckoning by tallies. 4. The keeping accounts by tallies. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > keeping accounts by tallies entailc1488 c1488 Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. 70 He [Chief Pantrer] receivythe the brede of the Sergeaunt of the bake-house by entayle. c1488 Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. 77 Ale or beer..pourveyede by entayle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). entailn.² Brit. /ᵻnˈteɪl/, /ɛnˈteɪl/, U.S. /ˈɛnˌteɪl/ Forms: see entail v.² Etymology: < entail v.² Law. The action of entailing; the state of being entailed. 1. The settlement of the succession of a landed estate, so that it cannot be bequeathed at pleasure by any one possessor; the rule of descent settled for any estate; the fixed or prescribed line of devolution. Also in phrases: to break, cut (off) the entail, statute of entails, entail male. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > entailing or entail tail1373 entailc1380 tailye1391 entailinga1538 entailmenta1641 c1380 [see sense 2a]. 1467 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 47 I wylle that myn executo^rs and myn feffeis see the best mene that they can in restoryng ageyn to the olde intaile of the seid place. 1467 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 50 Not conteynyd in myne dede of entayle. 1584 H. Llwyd & D. Powel Hist. Cambria 138 To his heires male by an especial Entaile aforesaid. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. iii. 281 For a Cardceue he will..cut th' intaile from all remainders. 1660 R. Burney Κέρδιστον Δῶρον 54 Transcendent to the ordinary course of the Lawes in passing of Fines and cutting of the Entails. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses iv. 16 His Sister Peg's Name being in the Entail, he could not make a thorough Settlement without her Consent. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxviii. 405 My Father too..might have cut off the Intail. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. (1802) I. i. 223 By introducing entails..to render their possessions unalienable and everlasting. 1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. viii. 142 This son was to join in cutting off the entail . View more context for this quotation 1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. 252 The statute of entails..is also to be referred to this reign. 1852 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. II. iii. 54 Entails were not perpetual; but land was always in the market. 2. transferred and figurative in various senses: a. The securing (an office, dignity, privilege) to a predetermined line of successors; a predetermined order of succession. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [noun] > sequence or order of succession entailc1380 sequence1592 series1594 sequel1615 succession1708 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 391 Men supposen þis entaile [of tithes] was not expresly confermyd bi criste. a1555 J. Bradford in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xlv. 131 Thoughe the Quene..disheryt the right Heyres apparent, or breake her Father's Intayle. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 12 So as the Entaile might seeme rather a personall favour to him, and his children, than a total Dis-inherison to the House of York. a1699 E. Stillingfleet Serm. II. i. (R.) How comes the entail to be made to all his [St. Peter's] successors? 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xv. 532 Harley..zealously supported the entail of the crown on the princess Sophia. b. The transmission, as an inalienable inheritance, of qualities, conditions, obligations, etc. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > custom of a society or group > transmission of entail1706 1706 D. Defoe Jure Divino viii. 30 They're Traytors else to the Entails of Sense. 1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 63 An entail of dependence is a bad reward of merit. 1866 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 1st Ser. 218 The natural entail of disease and character. 1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such ii. 36 That entail of social ignorance. c. Necessary sequence. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] > logical or necessary consequence entail1662 emanation1710 sequence1861 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vi. §10 If God by his immediate hand of providence did not cut off the entail of effects upon their natural causes. a1847 R. W. Hamilton Rewards & Punishm. (1853) ii. 82 The entail of vice upon the circumstances of the present life. d. concrete. That which is entailed; a secured inheritance. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited > a secured inheritance entail1822 1822 Ld. Byron Werner ii. ii. 305 Ignorance And dull suspicion are a part of his Entail will last him longer than his lands. †3. plural. (See quot. 1790; apparently humorous use of phrase belonging to 1.) ΚΠ 1790 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. 151 When they [sc. the reapers] came near the finish, they cut off each other's ‘entails’,—or ends of the lands: the whole finishing together. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † entailv.¹ Forms: Middle English entaille, entaylle, Scottish entailze, (1500s entally), Middle English–1600s entaile. Also 1500s intaile, intayle. Etymology: < Old French entaille-r, corresponding to Provençal entalhar, entaillar, Spanish entallar, Italian intagliare < late Latin intaleāre, < in into + taleāre (French tailler) to cut. Obsolete. 1. a. transitive. To carve, sculpture; to make carvings upon, ornament with carvings; to portray or represent by carving. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > sculpt or carve [verb (transitive)] behewc1314 entailc1394 chisel1517 to cut out1548 insculp1578 cut1600 sculpturea1684 sculp1784 sculpt1864 under-carve1904 c1394 P. Pl. Crede 167 A curious cros craftly entayled. c1400 Rom. Rose 140 Wel entailled With many riche portraitures. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde iii. xi. 158 In thyse grete colompnes or pylers..were entaylled & grauen the vii scyences. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 355/3 They wold not entaylle ne kerue hit [an ydolle]. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. i. 117 Plate..curiously wrought and entallied. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iii. sig. P2^v Golden bendes, which were entayld With curious antickes. 1637 J. Anchoran Porta Linguarum 183 A Carver or an image maker, graves, carves, and entailes a statue. absolute.1598 Chaucers Dreame in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 355^v/1 Couth wel entaile in Imagery. b. transferred with reference to embroidery. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > embroider or ornament with sewing beworkc1000 embrowdc1380 browdc1385 surfle1399 embroider14.. entailc1400 mark1415 lace1453 broider1455 broche1480 brawde1483 stitcha1529 whip1548 bebroyde1582 imphrygiate1592 purfle1601 embroche1611 be-embroider1614 acupinge1623 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 612 Tortors & trulofeȝ, entayled so þyk. c. In passive (cf. mould v.¹, carve v., etc.) of a living body. ΚΠ ?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 477 in Shorter Poems (1967) 36 His body weil entalȝeit [1579 Edinb. entailȝeit] euery steid. 2. To engrave in intaglio. rare as distinct sense. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > engrave in intaglio [verb (transitive)] entaila1552 intaglio1847 to cut in1883 a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) VII. 49 (Cornelines) and other Stonys wel entaylid for Seales. 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. i. xvii. f. 47^v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Costlye stones already entailled for Seales. 3. a. To cut into, make an incision in. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (transitive)] snithec725 carvec1000 cutc1275 slitc1275 hag1294 ritc1300 chop1362 slash1382 cut and carvea1398 flash?a1400 flish?a1400 slenda1400 race?a1425 raise?a1425 razea1425 scotch?c1425 ochec1440 slitec1450 ranch?a1525 scorchc1550 scalp1552 mincea1560 rash?1565 beslash1581 fent1589 engrave1590 nick1592 snip1593 carbonado1596 rescide1598 skice1600 entail1601 chip1609 wriggle1612 insecate1623 carbonate1629 carbonade1634 insecta1652 flick1676 sneg1718 snick1728 slot1747 sneck1817 tame1847 bite- 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxvi. xi. 259 Leafed after the manner of passe-flowers..but that they be entailed or endented deeper. b. absol. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > become or make perforated [verb (intransitive)] > make (a) hole(s) > with something sharp > as a sharp instrument biteOE rivec1275 piercea1325 thringc1330 soundc1374 thirlc1374 lancec1400 racea1420 entail1590 empierce1797 stab1897 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R6 The mortall steele despiteously entayld Deepe in their flesh. 4. To cut notches in a ‘tally’; to keep an account by tally. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > keep accounts [verb (intransitive)] > keep accounts by tally entailc1488 c1488 Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. 78 The yomen of the pycher house..intayle with both buttlers of wyne & ale. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). entailv.² Brit. /ᵻnˈteɪl/, /ɛnˈteɪl/, U.S. /ˈɛnˌteɪl/ Forms: α. Middle English–1500s entaile, Middle English entayle, 1600s– entail. β. Middle English–1500s intaile, intayle, 1600s–1700s intail. Etymology: < en- prefix¹ + Anglo-Norman tailé tail adj. or taile , noun, entail. In legal Anglo-Latin (16th cent.) intalliāre . See further under tail adj. 1. Law. transitive. To convert (an estate) into a ‘fee tail’ (feudum talliatum); to settle (land, an estate, etc.) on a number of persons in succession, so that it cannot be bequeathed at pleasure by any one possessor. Const. on, to, upon. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > settle (property) [verb (transitive)] > entail entail1380 tail1425 tailyec1540 society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > compel [verb (transitive)] > force or impose something upon to lay on11.. join1303 taxa1375 intruse?a1500 oversetc1500 beforcec1555 impose1581 threap1582 fasten1585 intrude1592 thrust1597 enforcea1616 forcea1616 entail1670 top1682 trump1694 push1723 coerce1790 press1797 inflict1809 levy1863 octroy1865 wish1915 1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 390 Lande entaylid by mannys lawe. 1466 Mann. & Househ. Exp. (1841) 341 The said Herry schalle bye and entayle v. markes worthe of londe to hym and his eyres. 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 60 Preamble Londes and tenementis whiche were intailed to him and to his Auncestres. 1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 56* What Landes to sell, howe they were eyther tyed by Statute, or Intailde? 1642 T. Fuller Holy State i. xiv. 45 The old man being onely Tenant for life, and the lands entaild on one young Gentleman. 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. vi. 245 An old craft of the Clergy to secure thir Church Lands, by entailing them on some Saint. 1765 Act 5 Geo. III c. 26 Pream. [They] should convey, settle, and intail the lands so to be purchased. 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 244 The house and park..were entailed on a distant cousin. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xi. 194 They cannot sell them [sc. houses], because they are entailed. 2. a. transferred and figurative. To bestow or confer as if by entail; to cause to descend to a designated series of possessors; to bestow as an inalienable possession. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > cause to be possessed > give as inalienable possession entail?1504 society > law > transfer of property > types of transfer > [verb (transitive)] > bestow as inalienable possession entail?1504 ?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. gg.ii The other gardyn is celestyall..And is entayled to vs in generall. 1513 T. More Hist. Edward V 3 The Crowne of the Realme [was] entayled to the Duke of Yorke and his Heires. 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet B Neuer entaile thy wit to the eldest. 1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 i. i. 195 I heere intaile the Crowne To thee and to thine heires. 1630 W. Prynne God no Impostor (rev. ed.) 2 The benefits of the Gospell are intayled vpon them alone. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. xii. 36 Nor then had the Pope the whole power herein intailed to his Tripple Crowne. 1682 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Rights Princes (new ed.) ii. 57 Bishops might have entailed their Sees to their Kinred or Friends. 1712 A. Pope tr. Statius First Bk. Thebais in Misc. Poems 12 Thou Fury, then, some lasting Curse entail. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. ii. iii. 113 Can I bear to think of entailing Beggary on the Posterity of my Amelia? 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames Pref. p. vii Intails distress and obloquy on an innocent offspring. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 214 Luther..entailed upon us the responsibility of private judgement. †b. In occasional uses: To make (a person) ‘heir’ to a possession, condition, etc.; to cause a person to become permanently (something). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > transform [verb (transitive)] wendOE forshapeOE workOE awendOE makec1175 turna1200 forwenda1325 change1340 shape1362 transmewc1374 transposec1380 puta1382 convertc1384 exchangea1400 remue?a1400 makea1425 reduce?a1425 removec1425 resolvea1450 transvertc1450 overchangec1480 mew1512 transmutea1513 wring1524 reduct1548 transform1556 innovate1561 metamorphose1576 transume1579 metamorphize1587 transmove1590 transchangea1599 transfashion1601 deflect1613 fordo1624 entail1628 transmutate1632 distila1637 to make much (also little, something, nothing, etc.) of1637 transqualify1652 unconvert1654 simulate1658 spend1668 transverse1687 hocus-pocus1774 mutate1796 fancy1801 to change around1871 metamorphosize1888 catalyse1944 morph1996 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxxvi. sig. O8^v Either of these intaile a mans mind to miserie. a1659 F. Osborne Characters (1673) 639 For he did undo By writing them, what Wit entayl'd thee to. 1683 in Pennsylvania Arch. (1852) I. 79 Amount to soe vast a sume as will entail me yo^r Perpetuall Debtor. †3. To attach as an inseparable appendage to, upon, an estate or inheritance; hence gen. to ‘tack on’, attach. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes 63 It hath pleased M. Printer..to intaile a vaine title to my name. 1607 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse sig. A4^v All his mad tricks were to his land intaild, And you are heire to al. 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 33 Upon the latter of which the Musulman empire is entayld. 1669 J. Bunyan Holy Citie 89 His Name was always so entailed to that Doctrine. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. xi. 188 The allotment of Food is..entailed to the very Constitution and Nature of Animals. 4. To impose (inconvenience, expense, labour) upon a person. Chiefly said of circumstances or actions; hence occasionally of personal agents. ΚΠ 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xix. sig. Hh6^v Yet Custom has so Entail'd some ways of Expence upon some Stations in the World. 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xlii. 138 What an enormous expence is entailed..upon this unhappy country. 1826 W. Scott Provinc. Antiq. Which shall, so long as the building stands, entail disgrace on all who have had to do with it. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. i. 3 The long wars..which a disputed succession entailed on the country. 1851 W. E. Gladstone State Prosecutions Neapolitan Govt. 35 I..shall not entail upon your Lordship the charge of handing to and fro replications and rejoinders. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §16. 104 The great amount of labour which this [assistance] might entail upon him. 5. Simply. To bring on by way of necessary consequence. Of premises: To involve logically, necessitate (a particular conclusion). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > bring about as a consequence or entail makeOE haveOE drawa1400 to draw inc1405 to leave behind1424 goc1449 to draw on1572 train1579 carry1581 beara1616 to lead toa1770 evolve1816 entail1829 mean1841 issue1842 subinduce1855 1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More I. 267 A conquest which brought with it no evil and entailed no regret. 1839 E. D. Clarke Trav. Var. Countries (new ed.) 134/1 The scheme..was found to entail greater evils than those he was labouring to put down. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. iii. 32 The weight of business which this present affliction entails. 1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith Introd. 4 That failure would not entail the conclusion that, etc. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1300n.²c1380v.¹c1394v.²1380
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