Entail vs Accomplish - What's the difference?
entail | accomplish |
To imply or require.
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.
* Allowing them to entail their estates. — .
* I here entail The crown to thee and to thine heirs forever. — Shakespeare
(obsolete) To appoint hereditary possessor.
* To entail him and his heirs unto the crown. — Shakespeare
(obsolete) To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
* Entailed with curious antics. — .
That which is entailed. Hence:
* A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates. — .
(obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
* A work of rich entail. — .
To finish successfully.
To complete, as time or distance.
* That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. - Daniel 9:2
* He had accomplished half a league or more. -
To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise.
* This that is written must yet be accomplished in me - Luke 22:37
(archaic) To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
* The armorers accomplishing the knights - Shakespeare, Henry V, IV-chorus
* It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. -
* These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. -
(obsolete) To gain; to obtain
:(Shakespeare)
In lang=en terms the difference between entail and accomplish
is that entail is 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 while accomplish is to bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise.In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between entail and accomplish
is that entail is (obsolete) delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio while accomplish is (obsolete) to gain; to obtain.As verbs the difference between entail and accomplish
is that entail is to imply or require while accomplish is to finish successfully.As a noun entail
is that which is entailed hence:.entail
English
Verb
(en verb)- This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
Derived terms
* entailmentNoun
(en noun)- An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
- The rule by which the descent is fixed.