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ENTA'IL, n.
1. An estate or fee entailed, or limited indescent to a particular heir or heirs. Estates-tail are general, as when lands and tenements are given to one and the heirs of his body begotten or special, as when lands and tenements are given to one and the heirs of his body by a particular wife.
2. Rule of descent settled for an estate.
3. Engraver's work inlay.
ENTA'IL, To settle the descent of lands and tenements, by gift to a man and to certain heirs specified, so that neither the donee nor any subsequent possessor can alienate or bequeath it as, to entail a manor to AB and to his eldest son, or to his heirs of his body begotten, or to his heirs by a particular wife.
1. To fix unalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants. By the apostasy misery is supposed to be entailed on mankind. The intemperate often entail infirmities, diseases and ruin on their children.
2. from the French verb. To cut to carve for ornament.
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Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Entail'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/e/entail.html.
Entry for 'Entail'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/e/entail.html.
