entail, implicate
(verb) impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result; “What does this move entail?”
implicate
(verb) bring into intimate and incriminating connection; “He is implicated in the scheme to defraud the government”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
implicate (third-person singular simple present implicates, present participle implicating, simple past and past participle implicated)
(transitive, with “in”) To show to be connected or involved in an unfavorable or criminal way.
To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.
(pragmatics) To imply without entailing; to have as an implicature.
(archaic) To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.
implicate (plural implicates)
(philosophy) The thing implied.
Source: Wiktionary
Im"pli*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Implicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Implicating.] Etym: [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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 March 2025
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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
