use; esp., an instrument, tool, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade,
of husbandry, or of war.
Genius must have talent as its complement and implement.
Coleridge. Implement
(Im"ple*ment), v. t.
1. To accomplish; to fulfill. [R.]
Revenge . . . executed and implemented by the hand of Vanbeest Brown.
Sir W. Scott. 2. To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied, or carried out, by means
of an implement or implements.
The chief mechanical requisites of the barometer are implemented in such an instrument as the following.
Nichol. 3. (Scots Law) To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement.
Implemental
(Im`ple*men"tal) a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, implements or their use; mechanical.
Impletion
(Im*ple"tion) n. [L. impletio. See Implement.]
1. The act of filling, or the state of being full. Sir T. Browne.
2. That which fills up; filling. Coleridge.
Implex
(Im"plex) a. [L. implexus, p. p. of implectere to infold; pref. im- in + plectere to plait: cf. F
implexe.] Intricate; entangled; complicated; complex.
The fable of every poem is . . . simple or implex. it is called simple when there is no change of fortune
in it; implex, when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good, or from good to bad.
Addison. Implexion
(Im*plex"ion) n. [L. implexio.] Act of involving, or state of being involved; involution.
Impliable
(Im*pli"a*ble) a. Not pliable; inflexible; unyielding.
Implicate
(Im"pli*cate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Implicated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Implicating.] [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.
Implication
(Im`pli*ca"tion) n. [L. implicatio: cf. F. implication.]
1. The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.
Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component
parts.
Boyle.
