Word Finder - entailed

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To imply or require.

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This activity will entail careful attention to detail.

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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.

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To appoint hereditary possessor.

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To cut or carve in an ornamental way.

He was received with enthusiasm, but the work which his tour entailed, over-fatigued him.

But long and exhausting wars were entailed upon her for the maintenance of her hold.

When the German squadron was sighted it would have been possible to fall back on the " Canopus," but this would have entailed the destruction of the " Otranto," which would have been overtaken by the enemy in two or three hours.

Curves of still smaller radius have entailed a maximum speed of io m.

In 1722 he was appointed to the deanery of Dromore, a post which seems to have entailed no duties, as we find him holding the offices of Hebrew lecturer and senior proctor at the university.

The labour entailed in repeated earthing up is also considered a serious objection to its general adoption.

The fact that the trade route to Manila passed through Vera Cruz, Mexico City and Acapulco entailed the settlement also of a few Chinese and Malays, chiefly on the Pacific coast.

This great shrinkage in exchange caused considerable loss to the Indian government in remitting to Europe, and entailed hardship upon Anglo-Indians who received pensions or other payments in rupees, while on the other hand it supplied an artificial stimulus to the export trade by increasing the purchasing power of gold.

By dissolving the Chamber early in 1897 and favouring Radical candidates in the general election, he paved the way for the outbreak of May 1898, the suppression of which entailed considerable bloodshed and necessitated a state of siege at Milan, Naples, Florence and Leghorn.

In 1872 Airy conceived the idea of treating the lunar theory in a new way, and at the age of seventy-one he embarked on the prodigious toil which this scheme entailed.

The submission to censorship which this entailed was sufficiently inconsistent and she wrote to the emperor one of the unfortunate letters, at once undignified and provoking, of which she had the secret.

Vast entailed estates were the property of a small group of landlords (in Bohemia 37.7%, in Moravia 34.4%, in Silesia 39.9% of all land belonged to owners representing 0.1% of the population), while great masses of the people did not own a single acre of their native land.

This policy was accompanied by a gradual decay of civic feeling and municipal enterprise, which showed itself mainly in the unwillingness of the townsmen to become candidates for local magistracies, or to take up the burdens entailed in membership of the municipal senate.

Westcott's work for Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, notably his articles on "Canon," "Maccabees," "Vulgate," entailed most careful and thorough preparation, and led to the composition of his subsequent valuable popular books, The Bible in the Church (1864) and a History of the English Bible (1869).

The Italian troubles, which had entailed the exile of Eugenius IV., were still insignificant in comparison with those conjured up by the fanatics of the Council in Basel.

The heavy expenses entailed thereby were largely met by the booty which he won.

Cockburn in 1859 and entailed by him on all holders of the office.

The prohibition of taking life, which they took over from the Farther East, in itself entailed fasting from flesh.

But whatever advantage resulted from this rule was more than compensated by the disadvantages it entailed.

Potato Diseases There are few agricultural subjects of greater importance than the culture of the potato and the losses entailed by potato disease.

The celebration of this marriage, while Matilda, countess of Boulogne and first wife of Alphonso III., was still alive, entailed the imposition of an interdict upon the kingdom.

It needed a Virchow to open the eyes of the municipality to the terrible waste of life such a state of things entailed.

McClellan followed up the Confederate rearguard and approached Richmond, using White House on the Pamunkey as a base of supplies; this entailed a division of his forces on either bank of the Chickahominy.

He came of a musical family, and was himself a talented amateur, and an acquaintance with Balakirev and Dargomijsky led him to more serious study of composition, so that in 1857 he left the army and devoted himself to music, though this step entailed his earning his living as a government clerk and a prolonged period of poverty.

A second lapse from the state of grace entailed perpetual exclusion from the sacraments, the means of salvation.

It entailed Walcherea enormous sacrifices, which led to corresponding disexpedition, contents; and differences as to its conduct produced Cabinet frequent friction within the government itself.

But the "inglorious and costly war" entailed an outlay of more than £12,000 on the ransom of captives alone, and ended in the total destruction of Athenian influence throughout Euboea.

The onerous duties his work at the Mint entailed severely tried his energies, and in quitting a purely scientific career he was subjected to the cares of official life, for which he was not fitted by temperament.

This entailed being sent to the front with the Canadian Cavalry brigade.

To abstain, therefore, from the quest for power is logically entailed by an understanding of the evil of violence.

Repeated handling of the sort entailed in collation seems inadvisable in their present condition.

To earn the permits Dan had the status of invited lecturer, which entailed giving three " conferences " at the University.

This is, to be sure, a somewhat selective understanding of what is entailed in doing theology.

The challenge of ' the Ascent of Olympus ' entailed building a stairway of 26 levels using 1200 blocks.

Often bought on impulse ' for the children ' from pet superstores by people who had no idea what keeping a rabbit entailed.

Megara's economic development entailed a change in the distribution of wealth, and consequently of political power, which is commented upon in the elegies of Theognis (q.v.).

It was objectionable on account of its unequal incidence, of the harassing investigation into private affairs which it entailed, and of the frauds to which it inevitably led.

This document annulled the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, with its schismatic tendencies, but at the same time confirmed the preponderating influence of the king upon the Gallican Church - a concession which in spite of its many dubious aspects at least made the sovereign the natural defender of the Church and gave him the strongest motive for remaining Catholic. The war for the duchy of Urbino (1516-17) entailed disastrous consequences, as from it dates the complete disorganization of papal finance.

There, however, he remained only six months, for certain views on slavery, strongly held and injudiciously expressed, entailed unpleasant consequences, and necessitated his return to England, where he obtained in 1844 the post of actuary to the Legal and Equitable Life Assurance Company.

This fact, together with the strong Italian bias of the Valois, serves to explain in some degree the reason why the Counter-Reformation entailed those fierce entangled civil wars, massacres of St Bartholomew, murders of the Guises, regicides, treasons and empoisonments that terminated with the compromise of Henry IV.

Cromwell 's policy of ' the reformation of manners ' was adopted and this entailed the enforcement of puritanical laws.

Before undergoing any course of treatment for migraines - whether medical or natural - always check with your doctor and have a discussion of the full benefits and risks entailed in that course of treatment.

No details were given as to what the stories entailed.

Earlier this week, Sheen was snapped wearing what is described as a "disguise" that entailed a fake mustache and a hoodie.

Intricate and frilly gowns are labor intensive and are normally priced to reflect the handiwork entailed.

Lingerie catalogs from years gone by will give you an idea of what sexy intimate apparel entailed.

The work of blockade, and of harassing the Confederates on the coast and the rivers of the Atlantic seaboard, called for much service in boats, and entailed a great deal of exposure.

There is no proof that any direct emolument was ever attached to the office, while the expense and trouble entailed by it must often have been very great.

At Ecbatana new masses of treasure were seized, but when once the necessary measures which its disposal and the occupation of the Median capital entailed were taken, Alexander continued the pursuit.

Yet at that moment the adoption of a clear line of policy, in accord with the central powers, might have saved Italy from the loss of prestige entailed by her bearing in regard to the Russo-Turkish War and the Austrian acquisition of Bosnia, and might have prevented the disappointment subsequently occasioned by the outcome of the Congress of Berlin.