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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Implied \Im*plied"\, a. Virtually involved or included; involved in substance; inferential; tacitly conceded; -- the correlative of express, or expressed. See {Imply}. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Imply \Im*ply"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Implied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Implying}.] [From the same source as employ. See {Employ}, {Ply}, and cf. {Implicate}, {Apply}.] 1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. [Obs.] [bd]His head in curls implied.[b8] --Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is proved, a mulicious intention is implied. --Bp. Sherlock. When a man employs a laborer to work for him, . . . the act of hiring implies an obligation and a promise that he shall pay him a reasonable reward for his services. --Blackstone. 3. To refer, ascribe, or attribute. [Obs.] Whence might this distaste arise? If [from] neither your perverse and peevish will. To which I most imply it. --J. Webster. Syn: To involve; include; comprise; import; mean; denote; signify; betoken. See {Involve}. | |
