Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IM-PLAUS'I-BLY, adv.

Without an appearance of probability.

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

To interweave. [Not in 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 xix.

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, ppr.

Prosecuting a suit.

IM-PLEAS'ING, a.

Unpleasing. [Not in use.]

IM-PLEDGE', v.t.

To pawn. [Not used.]

IM-PLEDG'ED, a.

Pledged; pawned.

IM'PLE-MENT, n. [Low. L. implementum, from impleo, to fill; in and pleo.]

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 signification.]

IM'PLE-MENT-ING, a.

Furnishing with implements. Ed. Rev.

IM-PLE'TION, n. [L. impleo, to fill; in and pleo.]

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.] Dict.

IM'PLI-CATE, v.t. [Fr. impliquer. It. implicare; L. implico, implicatus; in and plico, to fold, Gr. πλεκω, W. plygu.]

1. To infold; to involve; to entangle. Boyle. [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 this conspiracy.

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 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.

IM'PLI-CA-TIVE, a.

Having implication.

IM'PLI-CA-TIVE-LY, adv.

By implication. Buck.

IM-PLIC'IT, a. [L. implicitus, from implico, supra.]

1. Infolded; entangled; complicated. In his woolly fleece / I cling implicit. [Little used.] Pope.
2. Implied; tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words; as, an implicit contract or agreement.
3. Resting on another; trusting to the word or authority of another, without doubting or reserve, or without examining into the truth of the thing itself. Thus we give implied credit or confidence to the declarations of a person of known veracity. We receive with implicit faith whatever God has clearly revealed.

IM-PLIC'IT-LY, adv.

1. By inference deducible, but not expressed in words; virtually; in reality, but not in name. He that denies the providence of God, implicitly denies his existence. Bentley.
2. By connection with something else; dependently; with unreserved confidence; without doubting, or without examining evidence. We are disposed to believe implicitly what a man of veracity testifies. Learn not to dispute the methods of his providence, but humbly and implicitly to acquiesce in and adore them. Atterbury.

IM-PLIC'IT-NESS, n.

The state of being implicit; the state of trusting without reserve.

IM-PLI'ED, pp. [See Imply.]

Involved; contained virtually, though not expressed; as, an implied promise.

IM-PLI'ED-LY, adv.

By implication.