implicate
verbEtymology
First attested in the 15th century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English implicaten (poorly attested), from implicat(e) (“wrapped, entwined; involved, connected (with)”, possibly also used as the past participle of implicaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin implicātus, perfect passive participle of implicō (“to entangle, involve”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from plicō (“to fold”). Doublet of imply and employ.
- derived from implicātus
- inherited from implicaten
Definitions
To show to be connected or involved in an unfavorable or criminal way.
- The evidence implicates involvement of top management in the scheme.
- I shall cancel, without further provocation, the next lecture engagement that is implicated with a peep o' day train.
To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.
- What did Nixon's visit to China implicate for Russia?
To imply without entailing
To imply without entailing; to have as an implicature.
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To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.
The thing implied.
Intertwined, enfolded, twisted together
Intertwined, enfolded, twisted together; wrapped up (with), entangled, involved (in).
Involved, intricate.
The neighborhood
- neighborimplication
- neighborimplicative
- neighborimplicature
- neighborimplicit
- neighborimplicitness
- neighborimply
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at implicate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at implicate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at implicate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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