Hypertext Webster Gateway: "implicating"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.


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