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/ˈɪmplɪkˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Implicate v. t. (past & past part. implicated; pres. part. implicating)

To infold; to fold together; to interweave. "The meeting boughs and implicated leaves."

To bring into connection with; to involve; to connect; applied to persons, in an unfavorable sense; as, the evidence implicates many in this conspiracy; to be implicated in a crime, a discreditable transaction, a fault, etc.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Implicate" Quotes from Famous Books

... bowed to the Intendant. "I am under obligation to the Chevalier Bigot," said he, "but it astonishes me much that any one should dare implicate my father in such a disturbance. Certainly the Intendant does ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... divulged, and the greatest influence was exerted to prevent it from going to trial. He was known to have been intimate with Sainte Croix and Madame de Brinvilliers, and was thought to have procured his poisons from them. The latter, however, refused to say any thing which might implicate him. The inquiry was eventually stifled, after Penautier had been several ...

— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay

... we stir up insurrections among your slaves. We deny it; and what is your proof? Harper's Ferry! John Brown!! John Brown was no Republican; and you have failed to implicate a single Republican in his Harper's Ferry enterprise. If any member of our party is guilty in that matter, you know it, or you do not know it. If you do know it, you are inexcusable for not designating the man and proving the fact. If you do not ...

— Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections) • Abraham Lincoln

... by the Twelve to get him out of their way, that they might the better arrogate to themselves higher authority than they ever had, or anybody ever dreamed they would have; and also (as they perhaps hope) to prevent a complete expose of the spiritual wife system, which they knew would deeply implicate themselves." ...

— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn

... good that would do!" laughed Weirmarsh, selecting a cigarette from his gold case and lighting it, regarding his host with those narrow-set, sinister eyes of his. "It would only implicate Le Pontois further. They would say, and with truth, that you knew of the whole conspiracy and had profited ...

— The Doctor of Pimlico - Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime • William Le Queux

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