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▪ I. enˈtailment1 rare—1.
[f. entail v.1 + -ment.]
The action of ‘cutting’ or excising.
1822Monthly Mag. LIII. 127 He seems to approve of Mr. Bowdler's entailments.
▪ II. entailment2|ɛnˈteɪlmənt|
[f. entail v.2 + -ment.]
1. The action of entailing (property).
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 19 By which new way of entaylement..God..was..made his by peculiar Appropriation. 1832Marryat N. Forster xxv, Entailment of property..upon the male heir. 1875T. Hill True Order Stud. 128 Laws of primogeniture, entailment of estates.
2. Philos. [cf. entail v.2 5.] The strict or logically necessary implication of one proposition by another.
1933L. S. Stebbing Mod. Introd. Logic xv. 286 Professor Moore's analysis of the distinction between material implication and entailment makes it possible. 1957G. H. von Wright Logical Stud. 166 (title) The Concept of Entailment. 1965P. Caws Philos. Sci. xiv. 106 The weak kind..is called material implication, as distinct from strong implication or entailment. |