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He demands that we learn to regard matter and life as a whole, coherent domain, which he calls the implicate order

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  1. transitive verb To involve or connect intimately or incriminatingly: evidence that implicates others in the plot.
  2. transitive verb To have as a consequence or necessary circumstance; imply or entail: His evasiveness implicated complicity.
  3. transitive verb Linguistics To convey, imply, or suggest by implicature.
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  • But what if you could control that spotlight, dilate it like the pupil of an eye, stare deep into the implicate order. —  Asimov'sSF,August2008
  • Syria may have an additional motive for denouncing the arrest warrant, because its leadership is said to be concerned that the international investigation into the killing of a former Lebanese prime minister may implicate or even indict high-ranking Syrian figures. —  Yourish.com
  • From these abstract sketch elements, functionality and purpose implicate themselves organically.
  • His victims -- most of whom were either disgraced members of the Khmer Rouge or their families -- were tortured with electric shocks, waterboarding or beating to extract a confession, which would implicate new victims. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • I don't think I should implicate the many people that live in Washington. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
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  1. Middle English, to convey a truth bound up in a fable, from Latin implicāre, implicāt-, to entangle, unite : in-, in; see in-2 + plicāre, to fold; see plek- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin implicatus, inplicatus, past participle of implicare, inplicare (later Italian implicare = Spanish Portuguese implicar = Provencal inplicar = French impliquer), infold, involve, entangle, from in, in, + plicare, fold: see plait, plicate. Cf. implicit, and see employ, imply, older forms from the same Latin verb.
  2. from implicate, v.
 

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