1. entail - Noun
2. entail - Verb
That which is entailed.
An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
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 an heritage.
To appoint hereditary possessor.
To cut or carve in a ornamental way.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss. Isaiah Berlin
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit. Ulrich Beck
Perhaps if Hitler had had the wisdom to withdraw his troops and prepare for the defense of his own country, Germany, despite the loss of face this would entail in the losing of all Italy, then the course of the war, if not the outcome, would have been quite different. Christopher Vokes
Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death. George Orwell
But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war. Ulrich Beck
No pleasure is in itself evil, but the things which produce certain pleasures entail annoyances many times greater than the pleasures themselves. (8) Epicurus