entailmentn.1
rare.
The action of ‘cutting’ or excising.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > summarizing or abridging
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breviation1509
abbreviating1548
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contracting1585
curtailing1586
contraction1655
condensation1798
curtailment1799
epitomization1805
summarizing1808
entailment1822
boiling1898
predigestion1904
1822 Monthly Mag. 53 127 He seems to approve of Mr. Bowdler's entailments.
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entailmentn.2
/ɛnˈteɪlmənt/ 1. The action of entailing (property).
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society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > entailing or entail
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a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 19 By which new way of entaylement..God..was..made his by peculiar Appropriation.
1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster II. vii. 83 Entailment of property..upon the male heir.
1875 T. Hill True Order Stud. 128 Laws of primogeniture, entailment of estates.
2. Philosophy. [compare entail v.2 5] The strict or logically necessary implication of one proposition by another.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [noun] > implication
logical implication1887
prehensiveness1897
formal implication1903
material implication1903
implication1906
strict implication1912
entailment1933
1933 L. S. Stebbing Mod. Introd. Logic xv. 286 Professor Moore's analysis of the distinction between material implication and entailment makes it possible.
1957 G. H. von Wright Logical Stud. 166 (title) The Concept of Entailment.
1965 P. Caws Philos. of Sci. xiv. 106 The weak kind..is called material implication, as distinct from strong implication or entailment.
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