Meanings of entail upon in English

Imagine, therefore, what any scene or scandal would entail upon him!

Because he was hereditarily scrofulous, and would necessarily entail upon his offspring the family taint.

Our expenses will repay themselves with tenfold interest, while yours entail upon you everlasting poverty.

He is unwilling to incur the persecution and enmity which political convictions would entail upon him.

Its consummation would be a great wrong, and entail upon your daughter a life of misery.

What care they for the misery and crime this cruel, heartless course will entail upon this country?

Yet not to respect them is to entail upon ourselves I know not what load of acrimony, contempt, and misery!

Sometimes I accepted, but more frequently I refused, from fear of the disagreeable consequences and troubles it might entail upon me.

But General Carleton, an exceedingly humane and kind-hearted man, shrank from the horrors that such a warfare would entail upon the colonists.

The two young men had finished their luncheon before Clayton thought of the loneliness which his chum's absence would entail upon him.

One stripe erased from the banner, one star lost from the firmament, would entail upon them all the disgrace of national defeat!

For that very reason, what but love can soften the curses which my father's extortions from the country will entail upon me?

And, besides what consequences the visit of so stately a ladykiller, whose unusual height rendered him easily recognised, might now entail upon her!

But he sued for and obtained entail upon his sons and their sons forever of his nobility and his great Estate in the West.

Their hearts were filled with pity for the young man, but how could they bear the expense which this sickness would entail upon them?

He had no ideas of the suffering entailed upon his elder daughter.