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Implicate   /ˈɪmplɪkˌeɪt/   Listen
Implicate

verb
(past & past part. implicated; pres. part. implicating)
1.
Bring into intimate and incriminating connection.
2.
Impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result.  Synonym: entail.





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"Implicate" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ritchie in Rand's ear. "The plot was not only against Spain—it looked to the separation of the West from the East, with the Alleghanies for the wall between. General Wilkinson is the hero. It seems that Burr thought to implicate him and secure the army. Wilkinson sent Burr's letters in cipher to the President. The Government has had knowledge from various sources, and while he was thought to be dozing last summer, Mr. Jefferson ...
— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston
... I wish to say to you now, is, that this lady, either for willfulness or out of disbelief, affects to discredit my statement concerning Hadley's death, and I wish you to accompany me to the cave to-morrow, and confirm my statements. You need not implicate yourselves, but give the facts as you saw ...
— Eveline Mandeville - The Horse Thief Rival • Alvin Addison
... against her, declaring they would kill her if she did not testify against Lee. At first she refused to reveal the secret; indeed she knew but little to reveal; but her savage tormentors beat her almost to death. Under this barbarous infliction she was constrained to implicate Captain Lee, which was about all the evidence the prosecution had against him. And in reality her evidence, for two reasons, should not have weighed a straw, as it was contrary to the laws of the State of Virginia, to admit the testimony ...
— The Underground Railroad • William Still
... but the Emperor of Han could not bring himself to part with her, and refused to yield her up. I repeatedly renewed my bitter reproaches, and asked how he could bear, for the sake of a woman's beauty, to implicate the welfare of two nations. For this the Emperor would have beheaded me; and I therefore escaped with the portrait of the lady, which I present, great king, to yourself. Should you send away an envoy with the picture ...
— Chinese Literature • Anonymous
... much firewood as she wanted Better to die than to implicate anybody Duc d'Orleans, when called on to give his vote for death of King Formed rather to endure calamity with patience than to contend How can I have any regret when I partake your misfortunes Louis Philippe, the usurper ...
— Widger's Quotations from The Court Memoirs of France • David Widger


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