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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Implicate  \Im"pli*cate\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Implicated};  p. 
  pr  &  vb  n.  {Implicating}.]  [L.  implicatus  p.  p.  of 
  implicare  to  involve;  pref.  im-  in  +  plicare  to  fold.  See 
  {Employ},  {Ply},  and  cf  {Imply},  {Implicit}.] 
  1.  To  infold;  to  fold  together;  to  interweave. 
 
  The  meeting  boughs  and  implicated  leaves.  --Shelley. 
 
  2.  To  bring  into  connection  with  to  involve;  to  connect;  -- 
  applied  to  persons,  in  an  unfavorable  sense  as  the 
  evidence  implicates  many  in  this  conspiracy;  to  be 
  implicated  in  a  crime,  a  discreditable  transaction,  a 
  fault,  etc 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  implicating 
  n  :  a  charge  that  implicates  someone  (usually  of  wrongdoing) 
  [syn:  {implication}] 

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