Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo have as a necessary consequence; to lead to (something) as a consequence. · To suggest by logical inference. · To hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement. · To enfold, entangle.
From Middle English implien, emplien, borrowed from Old French emplier, from Latin implicare (“to infold, involve”), from in (“in”) + plicare (“to fold”). Doublet of employ and implicate.
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