implicate
English
Etymology
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Borrowed from Latin implicatus < implico (“entangle, involve”), from plico (“fold”). Doublet of imply and employ.
Pronunciation
Verb
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- To connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something.
- 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72-3:
- Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
- The evidence implicates involvement of top management in the scheme.
- To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.
- What did Nixon's visit to China implicate for Russia?
- (pragmatics) To imply without entailing; to have as an implicature.
- (archaic) To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.
Related terms
Translations
to connect or involve
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to have as an implicature
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to have as a necessary circumstance
to intertwine — see intertwine
Noun
implicate (plural implicates)
- (philosophy) The thing implied.
See also
Italian
Verb
implicate
- second-person plural present of implicare
- second-person plural imperative of implicare
- feminine plural past participle of implicare
Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) implicāte
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