entail

Definition

To imply, require, or invoke.

Etymology

From Middle English entaillen, from Old French entaillier, entailler (“to notch”, literally “to cut in”); from prefix en- + tailler (“to cut”), from Late Latin taliare, from Latin talea. Compare late Latin feudum talliatum (“a fee entailed, i.e., curtailed or limited”).

Example Sentences

• "This activity will entail careful attention to detail."
• "What mattered to Hegel, and now Leach, is a presupposedly, historically necessary evolution in the structure of political power, entailing the creation of new classes of powerless victims to be sacrificed on the altar of abstract ideological concepts (i.e., “choice”)."
• "God's immateriality entails the divine attribute of incorporeality, that God is neither a body nor embodied."