ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED1.] Of land, an inheritance, etc.: Transmitted by entail. Also fig.
1531. Dial. on Laws Eng., I. xxix. (1638), 52. The … recovery must be taken in this case … as recoveries of other lands intailed bee.
1766. Mrs. S. Pennington, Lett., IV. 38. To restore to his destitute family an entailed estate.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 47. To claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers.
1818. Cruise, Digest, VI. 21. If B. claimed a share of the entailed lands.
1845. McCulloch, Taxation, I. iv. (1852), 125. Owners of entailed estates.
1860. Pusey, Min. Proph., 14. Until the entailed curse be cut off by repentance.
