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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To involve or connect intimately or incriminatingly: evidence that implicates others in the plot.
  2. v. To have as a consequence or necessary circumstance; imply or entail: His evasiveness implicated complicity.
  3. v. Linguistics To convey, imply, or suggest by implicature.
  4. v. Archaic To interweave or entangle; entwine.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To infold or fold over; involve; entangle.
  2. To cause to be affected; show to be concerned or have a part; bring into connection or relation: with by, in, or with: as, the disease implicates other organs; the evidence implicates several persons in the crime.
  3. Synonyms Implicate, Involve, Entangle. Implicate and involve are similar words, but with a marked difference. The first means to fold into a thing; the second, to roll into it. What is folded, however, may be folded but once or partially; what is involved is rolled many times. Hence, men are said to be implicated when they are only under suspicion, or have taken but a small share in a transaction; they are said to be involved when they are deeply concerned. In this sense implicate is always used of persons; involve may be used of persons or things; both words being always metaphorically employed. Entangle is used either literally or metaphorically, and signifies to involve so that extrication is a matter of extreme difficulty.
  4. n. The thing implied; that which results from implication.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something.
  2. v. To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.
  3. v. archaic To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To infold; to fold together; to interweave.
  2. v. To bring into connection with; to involve; to connect; -- applied to persons, in an unfavorable sense

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result
  2. v. bring into intimate and incriminating connection

Etymologies

  1. From Latin implico ("entangle, involve"), from plico ("fold") (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, to convey a truth bound up in a fable, from Latin implicāre, implicāt-, to entangle, unite : in-, in, + plicāre, to fold. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. involve
  1. connect
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  1. lead
  1. involve
  1. regard
  1. affect

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  1. implicate
  1. entangle
  1. embroil
  1. implicative
  1. inculpate
  1. incriminate
  1. mix
  1. involve

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  • bilby I tried a tortilla involved with salsa and chilli beans. My feeling though is that they are far better implicated with guacamole. Apr 4, 2011

  • Prolagus What a beautiful definition. Apr 4, 2011

  • ruzuzu "Implicate and involve are similar words, but with a marked difference. The first means to fold into a thing; the second, to roll into it. What is folded, however, may be folded but once or partially; what is involved is rolled many times. Hence, men are said to be implicated when they are only under suspicion, or have taken but a small share in a transaction; they are said to be involved when they are deeply concerned. . . ."
    --Century Dictionary Apr 4, 2011

  • oroboros "...a new notion of order, that may be appropriate to a universe of unbroken wholeness. This is the implicate or enfolded order. In the enfolded order space and time are no longer the dominant factors determining the relationships of the dependence or independence of different elements. Rather, an entirely different sort of basic connection of elements is possible from which our ordinary notions of space and time, along with those of separately existent material particles, are abstracted as forms derived from the deeper order. These ordinary notions in fact appear in what is called the explicate or unfolded order, which is a special and distinguished form contained within the general totality of all the implicate orders."

    Wholeness and the Implicate Order by Jacob Bohm, p.xv of Introduction Aug 3, 2008

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