Encompass vs. Entail — What's the Difference?

Encompass, the Enterprise Computing Association, was the original computer user group for business customers of Hewlett-Packard. Encompass's history began with DECUS, founded in 1961, for customers of the Digital Equipment Corporation, which was acquired in 1998 by Compaq.

Involve (something) as a necessary or inevitable part or consequence

To form a circle or ring around; encircle.

Limit the inheritance of (property) over a number of generations so that ownership remains within a particular family or group

To enclose; envelop

A limitation of the inheritance of property to certain heirs over a number of generations

To have as part of something larger; include

To have, impose, or require as a necessary accompaniment or consequence

(transitive) To form a circle around; to encircle.

To limit the inheritance of (property) to a specified succession of heirs.

(transitive) To include within its scope; to circumscribe or go round so as to surround; to enclose; to contain.

To bestow or impose on a person or a specified succession of heirs.

(transitive) To include completely; to describe fully or comprehensively.

The act of entailing, especially property.

(transitive) To go around, especially, to circumnavigate.

The state of being entailed.

To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the world.

An entailed estate.

Include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory;

A predetermined order of succession, as to an estate or to an office.

Something transmitted as if by unalterable inheritance.

(transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.

(transitive) 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 a heritage.

To appoint hereditary possessor.

To cut or carve in an ornamental way.

That which is entailed.

An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.

The rule by which the descent is fixed.

(obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

That which is entailed.

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 an ornamental way.

Land received by fee tail

The act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple

Have as a logical consequence;

Impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result;

Limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs