Law. Of lands and tenements: Granted, settled, or held in tail (see tail, v.2 5); = entailed, adj. Obsolete or archaic.

Of a fee or freehold estate (= Anglo-Norman fee taylé, medieval Anglo-Latin feodum tāliātum): Limited and regulated as to its tenure and…

Of land, an inheritance, etc.: Transmitted by entail. Also figurative.

cut to shape; appointed, fixed, arranged; entailed.