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Entailed vs Untailed - What's the difference?

entailed | untailed |

As a verb entailed

is (entail).

As an adjective untailed is

without a tail.

entailed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (entail)

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    entail

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To imply or require.
    • This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
  • 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. — .

    • Derived terms

    * entailment

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is entailed. Hence:
    • An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
    The rule by which the descent is fixed.
  • * A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates. — .
  • (obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
  • * A work of rich entail. — .

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    (Webster 1913)

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    untailed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without a tail.
  • * 2004 , Jean Houston, Mystical Dogs: Animals as Guides to Our Inner Life
    • Juxtaposed with these, in the corner is a little stick figure of a human, bereft of magic — a poor relation, unhoofed, untoothed, untailed , disenchanted, lost.

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