IMPLICATE

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

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Etymology

Verb

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.

Noun

implicate (plural implicates)

(philosophy) The thing implied.

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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