Ensue vs. Entail — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ensue and Entail
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Ensue
Happen or occur afterwards or as a result
The difficulties which ensued from their commitment to Cuba
Entail
Involve (something) as a necessary or inevitable part or consequence
A situation which entails considerable risks
Ensue
To take place afterward or as a result.
Entail
Limit the inheritance of (property) over a number of generations so that ownership remains within a particular family or group
Her father's estate was entailed on a cousin
Ensue
To follow (a leader, inclination etc.).
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Entail
A limitation of the inheritance of property to certain heirs over a number of generations
Landed property was governed by primogeniture and entail
The damage being done in England by entails
Ensue
To follow (in time), to be subsequent to.
Entail
To have, impose, or require as a necessary accompaniment or consequence
The investment entailed a high risk. The proposition X is a rose entails the proposition X is a flower because all roses are flowers.
Ensue
(intransitive) To occur afterwards, as a result or effect.
Give three freshmen six bottles of wine, and hilarity will ensue.
Entail
To limit the inheritance of (property) to a specified succession of heirs.
Ensue
To follow; to pursue; to follow and overtake.
To ensue his example in doing the like mischief.
Entail
To bestow or impose on a person or a specified succession of heirs.
Ensue
To follow or come afterward; to follow as a consequence or in chronological succession; to result; as, an ensuing conclusion or effect; the year ensuing was a cold one.
So spoke the Dame, but no applause ensued.
Damage to the mind or the body, or to both, ensues, unless the exciting cause be presently removed.
Entail
The act of entailing, especially property.
Ensue
Issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end;
Result in tragedy
Entail
The state of being entailed.
Entail
An entailed estate.
Entail
A predetermined order of succession, as to an estate or to an office.
Entail
Something transmitted as if by unalterable inheritance.
Entail
(transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.
This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
Entail
(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.
Entail
To appoint hereditary possessor.
Entail
To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
Entail
That which is entailed.
Entail
An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
Entail
The rule by which the descent is fixed.
Entail
(obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
Entail
That which is entailed.
A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates.
Entail
Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
Entail
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.
Allowing them to entail their estates.
I here entailThe crown to thee and to thine heirs forever.
Entail
To appoint hereditary possessor.
To entail him and his heirs unto the crown.
Entail
To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
Entailed with curious antics.
Entail
Land received by fee tail
Entail
The act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple
Entail
Have as a logical consequence;
The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers
Entail
Impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result;
What does this move entail?
Entail
Limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs
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