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The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.

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  1. n. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
  2. n. The condition of being entailed.
  3. n. A thing entailed.
  4. n. something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)
  5. 1. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent. 2. The condition of being entailed. 3. A thing entailed. Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force. R. L. Dugdale.
  6. n:100 n something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)