IMPLICA'TION, noun [Latin implicatio, supra.] 1. The act of infolding or involving. 2. Involution; entanglement. Three principal causes of firmness are, the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of the component parts. 3. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; a tacit inference, or something fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words. The doctors are, by implication of a different opinion.
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