Dictionary: IM-PLANT-A'TION – IM'PLI-CA-TIVE

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IM-PLANT-A'TION, n.

The act of setting or infixing in the mind or heart, as principles or first rudiments. Brown,

IM-PLANT'ED, pp.

Set; infixed in the mind, as principle or rudiments.

IM-PLANT'ING, ppr.

Setting or infixing in the mind, principles.

IM-PLAU-SI-BIL'I-TY, n. [from implausible.]

The quality of not being plausible or specious.

IM-PLAUS'I-BLE, a.

s as a. [in and plausible.] Not spacious; not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed; as, an implausible harangue.

IM-PLAUS'I-BLE-NESS, n.

State of not being plausible.

IM-PLAUS'I-BLY, adv.

Without an appearance of probability.

IM-PLEACH', v.t. [in and pleads.]

To interweave. [Not use.] Shak.

IM-PLEAD', v.t. [in and plead.]

To institute and prosecute a suit against one in court; to sue at law. The corporation shall have power to plead and be impleaded. Let them implead one another. Acts xis.

IM-PLEAD'ED, pp.

Prosecuted; sued; subject to answer to a suit in court.

IM-PLEAD'ER, n.

One who prosecutes another.

IM-PLEAD'ING, a.

Unpleasing. [Not in use.]

IM-PLEAD'ING, ppr.

Prosecuting a snit.

IM-PLEDGE', v.t.

To pawn. [Not Wed.]

IM-PLEDG'ED, a.

Pledged; pawned.

IM'PLE-MENT, n. [Low. L. Implementur; from impleo, fill; in arid pled.]

Whatever may supply wants; particularly, as now used, tools, utensils, vessels, instruments; the tools or instruments of labor; the vessels used in a kitchen, &c. as, the implements of trade or of husbandry. It is a word of very extensive signfication.]

IM'PLE-MENT-ING, a.

Furnishing with implements. Ed. Rev.

IM-PLE'TION, n. [L. impko, fill; in and pito.]

The act of filling; the state of being full. The impletion is either in simple or compound flowers. The impletion of simple flowers is by the increase of the petals, or of the nectary. Lee

IM'PLEX, a. [L. implexus. See Implicate.]

Infolded; intricate; entangled; complicated. Every poem is simple or implex; it is called simple, when there is no change of fortune in it; implex, when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good, or from good to bad. Spectator.

IM-PLEX'ION, n. [See Implicate.]

The act of infolding or involving; the state of being involved; involution. [little used.]

IM'PLI-CATE, v.t. [Fr. impliquer. It. implicare; L. co, implicatus; in and plico, to fold, Gr. {foreign}.]

  1. To enfold to involve; to entangle. Elk [Seldom used in its literal sense.]
  2. To involve; to bring into connection with; also, to show or prove to be connected or concerned; as, the evidence does not implicate the accused person in thisconspiracy.

IM'PLI-CA-TED, pp.

  1. Infolded; involved.
  2. Involved; connected; concerned; proved to be concerned or to have had a part. Twenty persons are implicated in the plot.

IM'PLI-CA-TING, ppr.

Involving; proving to be concerned.

IM-PLI-CA'TION, n. [L. implicatio, supra.]

  1. The act of infolding or involving.
  2. Involution; entanglement. Three principal causes of firmaese are, the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of the compoaent parts. Boyle.
  3. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; a tacit inference, or something airly to be understood, though not expressed in words. The doctors are, by implication, of a diarent opinion. Ayliffe.

IM'PLI-CA-TIVE, a.

Having implication.