- involved with or following from something by logical necessity or as a consequence: Most of the public complied with the curfew restrictions despite the entailed inconvenience.If the entailed proposition turns out to be false, the theory that generated it must also be false.
- (of real estate) limited to a specified line of heirs, so that it cannot be transferred or bequeathed to anyone else: This entailed estate has belonged to the family for a period of 300 years.
- descending to a fixed series of possessors, as a title, the crown, etc.: On the death of his uncle Edward, Duke of York, Richard acquired the entailed title of his grandfather Edmund, Duke of York.
- the simple past tense and past participle of entail.
