Brutality as an hereditary entailment becomes an ever weakening force.
R. L. Dugdale.
En"tal (?), a. [See Ent-.] (Anat.) Pertaining to, or situated near, central or deep parts; inner; -- opposed to ectal. B. G. Wilder.
En*tame" (?), v. t. To tame. [Obs.] Shak.
En*tan"gle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entangled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Entangling (?).] 1. To twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated; to make tangled, confused, and intricate; as, to entangle yarn or the hair.
2. To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers. "Entangling alliances." Washington.
The difficulties that perplex men's thoughts and entangle their understandings.
Locke.
Allowing her to entangle herself with a person whose future was so uncertain.
Froude.
En*tan"gle*ment (?), n. State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
En*tan"gler (?), n. One that entangles.
||En*ta"si*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;. See Entasis.] (Med.) Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.
||En"ta*sis (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?; a stretching; fr. &?;; &?; in + &?; to extend.] 1. (Arch.) A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.