Word Meanings - ENTAILMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENTAILMENT)

• Heritage
• Inheritance
• entailment
• legacy

Related words: (words related to ENTAILMENT)

• LEGACY
  from legare to appoint by last will, to bequeath as a legacy, to 1. A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease. 2. A business with which one is intrusted by another;
• HERITAGE
  A possession; the Israelites, as God's chosen people; also, a flock under pastoral charge. Joel iii. 2. 1 Peter v. 3. (more info) F. héritage, fr. hériter to inherit, LL. heriditare. See 1. That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir;
• ENTAILMENT
  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.
• INHERITANCE
  Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation. (more info) 1. The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities. 2. That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived
• DELEGACY
  1. The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power. By way of delegacy or grand commission. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A body of delegates or commissioners; a delegation. Burton.
• DISINHERITANCE
  The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.
• COINHERITANCE
  Joint inheritance.