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implicative, a. and n.|ˈɪmplɪkeɪtɪv|
[f. implicate v. + -ive.]
A. adj. Having the quality of implying; tending to imply or implicate. Also, containing at least implications or implications only.
1602W. Fulbecke 2nd Pt. Parall. 17 The receit of such goodes into the Inne is an implicatiue promise, that the goodes shall be safe. 1818Colebrooke Treat. Oblig. Contracts I. 15 Implied or implicative contracts are such as reason and justice dictate. 1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) I. 94 That existence and knowledge were identical and mutually implicative. 1872F. W. Robinson Bridge of Glass I. i. ix. 124 The words..were more in pity for the man..than implicative of any thought for himself. 1910Whitehead & Russell Principia I. i. 7 The Implicative Function is a propositional function with two arguments p and q. 1930L. S. Stebbing Mod. Introd. Logic v. 71 The implicative proposition cannot be simply converted. 1955A. N. Prior Formal Logic 61 A purely implicative formula. 1967Listener 5 Oct. 422/3 Substitution of implicative features for defining features—that is, the use of emotive language—is the trade-mark of propaganda. 1971Language XLVII. 341 For reasons that will soon become apparent, I suggest the terms ‘implicative’ and ‘non-implicative’ verbs.
†B. n. That which implies; a statement or writing implying something more than it expressly states. Obs. rare.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. v. (Arb.) 163 This Eglogue..was misliked..as an implicatiue, nothing decent nor proportionable to Pollio his fortunes and calling.
Hence ˈimplicatively adv., by implication; imˈplicativeness, the quality of being implicative.
1579J. Stubbes Gaping Gulf E iv b, Which, as a former fayth, is implicatively excepted in any truce with an infidel. 1602W. Fulbecke Pandectes 82 Such thinges as are not verballie forbidden, are implicatiuelie permitted. a1676Hale Hist. Placit. Cor. xlix. §2 (Mason) Virtually and implicatively, and by necessary consequence, it takes away clergy..in all those cases. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 2 June 411/3 Professor Trout's chapters on the systolic and diastolic implicativeness of ‘religious rapport’ and ‘religious dominance’. 1951J. Miles Primary Lang. Poetry 493 Richards allies emotion..to order, and so supports its implicativeness in shape and form and connotation. 1953Partridge Shaggy Dog Story iii. 84 Many years ago Collier's Weekly published, implicatively as reminiscence, a ‘shaggy dog’ that must..rank very high. |