entail

1. (transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.Examples: "This activity will entail careful attention to detail."; "What mattered to Hegel, and now Leach, is a presupposedly, historically necessary evolution in the structure of political power, entailing the creation of new classes of powerless victims to be sacrificed on the altar of abstract ideological concepts (i.e., “choice”)."; "God's immateriality entails the divine attribute of incorporeality, that God is neither a body nor embodied."transitive

2. (transitive) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.Examples: "Mr. Bennet's property consisted almost entirely in an estate of two thousand a year, which, unfortunately for his daughters, was entailed, in default of heirs male, on a distant relation; and their mother's fortune, though ample for her situation in life, could but ill supply the deficiency of his."; "1754-1762, David Hume, The History of England Allowing them to entail their estates."; "I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever."transitive

3. (transitive, obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.Examples: "To entail him and his heirs unto the crown."obsoletetransitive

4. (transitive, obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.Examples: "All bard with golden bendes, which were entayld / With curious antickes"obsoletetransitive