Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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

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