0 past simple and past participle of entail
1 to make something necessary, or to involve something:
Such a large investment inevitably entails some risk.
[ + -ing verb ] Repairing the roof will entail spending a lot of money.
Enjoyment of life entailed the ability to enjoy one's social life and included being sufficiently wealthy, learning new things, and participating in social groups.
The purpose was otherwise, thus no deliberate selection bias is entailed.
Such differing approaches to the protagonist entailed two different approaches to the play.
So the statement, ' there are numbers', is trivially entailed from any number of primitive arithmetic truths.
This is surely a prima facie reason for excluding the quality of being-the-source-of-all from being entailed by perfection.
This distinction aids in understanding what may be entailed in mystical union.
The guilty party was proclaimed to be legally dead, with all the financial consequences that that entailed.
The difference between a background proposition and a presupposition is that the former, unlike the latter, is not tacitly entailed but stated by the utterance.
