Definition of "implicate" []

• To involve or connect intimately or incriminatingly: evidence that implicates others in the plot. (verb-transitive)
• To have as a consequence or necessary circumstance; imply or entail: His evasiveness implicated complicity. (verb-transitive)
• Linguistics To convey, imply, or suggest by implicature. (verb-transitive)
• Archaic To interweave or entangle; entwine. (verb-transitive)

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• "He demands that we learn to regard matter and life as a whole, coherent domain, which he calls the implicate order"
• "He dubbed the implicate order an undivided holistic realm that is beyond concepts like space-time, matter, or energy."
• "'Credit cards, calls implicate Mossad in Dubai killing'"