implicature
Dictionary entries
- Entry →implico, implicare, implicavi, implicatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
implicate; involve/engage/entangle/embroil; interweave/fold/twine w/itself;; entwine/enfold/envelop/encircle; wrap up inside; embrace; enclose; hem in;; interweave/interlace/intertwine; clasp/grasp (L+S); unite/join/mix;; perplex/confuse/confound/complicate; take hold (disease);; (PASS) be intimately associated/connected/related/bound; be a tangle/maze;
voc. sg. fut. act. part.
Examples
Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...redditur, siveut Maeander, poetarum omnium exercitatio et ludus, implicatur crebris anfractibuset saepe in vicinum alveo suo admotus, antequam..."Liber XI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...defectores ira magis quam ex usu praesenti accensus, implicatur obsidione urbis validae et munimentis obiecti amnis muroque..."