Entailment

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of entailing, or of limiting the descent of an estate to a particular heir and his descendants.
  • noun. The state of being entailed.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
  • noun. The condition of being entailed.
  • noun. A thing entailed.
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  • noun. The act of entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed.
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  • noun. something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)
    • Word Usage
    "Then we shift back to the safe indication account, and go along with skeptics when they appeal to the principle of entailment, which is sustained by the safe indication account, and conclude that ordinary knowledge claims are false."
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