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Definition of Implicate

1. Verb. Bring into intimate and incriminating connection. "He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government"

2. Verb. Impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result. "What does this move entail?"

Definition of Implicate

1. v. t. To infold; to fold together; to interweave.

Definition of Implicate

1. Verb. To connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something. ¹

2. Verb. To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment. ¹

3. Verb. (archaic) To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Implicate

1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Implicate

implete impleted impletes impleting impletion impletions implex implexes implexion implexions

impliable implicand implicands implicant implicants implicate (current term) implicated implicates implicating implication

implicational implicational propositional calculus implications implicative implicatively implicativeness implicature implicatures implicit implicit cognition

Literary usage of Implicate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"implicate and Implication : see IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT. ... That which is, especially logically, implicit is called an implicate or an implication. ..."

2. A History of Rome: Amply Illustrated with Maps, Plans, and Engravings by Robert Fowler Leighton (1885)
"Effort to implicate Crassus. —Cicero related these events to the people the same ... An effort was made to implicate Crassus as well as Caesar in the ..."

3. Niles' Weekly Register edited by Hezekiah Niles, Jeremiah Hughes, George Beatty (1835)
"They are happy to believe that this vile attempt to implicate in the most atrocious act a member of the senate, has excited on the part of the other ..."

4. On the Evidence of Accomplices by Henry Joy (1844)
"... in the main of the evidence he 41 has given before you, and in which he would implicate all the 41 prisoners at the bar, spoken truth. ..."

5. A History of Illinois, from Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847 by Thomas Ford, James Shields (1854)
"... of their prisoners— The rogues vote for the county officers of Massac in 1846—Extorted and bribed evidence to implicate the sheriff and others, ..."

6. The Annual Register (1823)
"... connected nith this Trial; attempt lo implicate some eminent Members of the Opposition in ... implicate ..."

7. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1823)
"... Berthon marches upon Saumur ; his failure—Trial of Berthon and his Associates—Circumstances connected with this Trial; attempt to implicate some eminent ..."

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