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implicit, a.|ɪmˈplɪsɪt|
Also 7 implicite.
[a. F. implicite or ad. L. implicit-us, later form for implicāt-us implicate ppl. a.]
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a. Entangled, entwined, folded or twisted together; involved. Obs.
1608Topsell Serpents (1658) 767 Epithets..given to snakes..as..green, infolded or implicit, horrible. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 323 The humble Shrub, And bush with frizl'd hair implicit. a1803Beattie Hares 92 No hand had wove the implicit maze.
fig.1614Lodge Seneca, Epist. 239 How pleasant and expedite the life of those men is that follow them; how bitter and implicite theirs is that have beleeved opinion more then truth. 1620Granger Div. Logike 117 Manner of handling, which is double, viz...infolded, or unfolded; implicite, or explicite.
†b. Involved in each other; overlapping. Obs.
1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. i. v. §8 The uncertainty of heathen chronology, when..implicite years are given out for solid. 1704Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 284 They took implicit years for solid, and placed those Kings in a succession which were contemporary with one another.
2. a. Implied though not plainly expressed; naturally or necessarily involved in, or capable of being inferred from, something else. implicit function (see quot. 1892). implicit definition = contextual definition.
1599in Harington Nugæ Ant. 57 Yet, because it is but implicit, I send again to know more clearly. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 366 Magike..which is by explicite or implicite compact with Divels. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 133 And the King of France, had with his promises, and some implicite threats, commended his Brother herein. 1720Waterland Eight Serm. 237 The Scripture-proofs of the Eternity of God the Son, are..either implicite and indirect, or explicite and direct. 1816tr. Lacroix' Diff. & Int. Calculus 160 Treating the subordinate variables as implicit functions of the independent ones. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. i. ii, Might she not be going in to buy something which had struck her fancy? This implicit falsehood passed through her mind. 1892J. Edwards Diff. Calculus i. §8 (ed. 2) 3 If the function be not expressed directly in terms of the independent variable..the function is said to be implicit. 1959K. R. Popper Logic Sci. Discovery iii. 72 Sometimes the axioms are described as ‘implicit definitions’ of the ideas which they introduce. 1961E. Nagel Struct. of Sci. v. 95 The fundamental assumptions of the theory provide only implicit definitions for the theoretical notions employed in them. 1973A. Quinton Nature of Things ix. 279 We can thus define a logical term as one whose meaning is wholly specified by implicit definitions.
†b. Of persons having some implied quality: Virtual, though not professed or avowed. Obs.
1610Donne Pseudo-Martyr 155 One may bee an implicite martyre, though he know not why he died. 1633Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 114 Deferring as well as presuming, makes many men implicite Atheists. 1660Burney κέρδ. Δῶρον (1661) 130 All the kings of the Earth joyn their mutual forces for the Crown, when they design Justice; they are implicite confederates.
c. Of ideas or feelings: Contained in the mind without being clearly formulated; vague, indefinite. Now rare.
1659Gentl. Calling (1696) 107 Men take up general and implicite prejudices. 1664Butler Hud. ii. i. 547 'Tis no implicite, nice Aversion T' your Conversation, Meine, or Person. 1690Locke Hum. Und. i. ii. (1695) 11 The Understanding hath an implicit Knowledge of these Principles, but not an explicit. 1738Hume Hum. Nat. i. §15 Views and sentiments..so implicit and obscure that they often escape our strictest attention. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola ii. iii, Tito's implicit desires were working themselves out now in very explicit thoughts.
d. Virtually or potentially contained in.
1657Burton's Diary (1828) II. 371 All those things were implicit in my eye in the oath. 1848Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. viii, To evolve the blessing implicit in all heaven's chastenings. 1874Sayce Compar. Philol. vi. 245 The undeveloped conceptions that lay implicit in it have been severally marked off one from the other.
3. a. implicit faith (= eccl. L. fides implicita), faith in spiritual matters, not independently arrived at by the individual, but involved in or subordinate to the general belief of the Church; hence, resting on the authority of another without doubt or inquiry; unquestioning, unreserved, absolute. So implicit belief, implicit confidence, implicit obedience, implicit submission, etc.
[1601Bp. W. Barlow Def. Prot. Relig. 70 Fidem implicitam, a faith involved and folded within the Church beleefe. 1605A. Wotton Answ. Pop. Articles 29 Their fides implicita, their Colliers faith, which teaches them to beleeve as the Church doth, but never instructs them..in al the severall matters of beleefe.] 1610Donne Pseudo-Martyr Pref. C iij a, The implicite faith and blinde assent which you were used to give heretofore to the spirituall supremacy. Ibid. 195 The implicite obedience imagin'd to bee vowed to the Church in baptisme. 1640Quarles Enchirid. iv. lxxxix, Hee that beleeves with an implicite Faith, is a meere Empricke in Religion. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. vi. §388 An implicit Reverence for the Court. 1786T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 30 An implicit respect paid to the laws of the land. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 98, I would place implicit confidence in an Englishman's description of the regions beyond the cataracts of the Nile. 1845M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 16 The Frank..learned with implicit belief his faith from the mouth of the Roman priest. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. III. xii. 244 These glaring contradictions..are quite enough to hinder us from putting implicit faith in a single uncorroborated detail.
†b. Hence (erroneously): Absolute, unqualified, unmitigated, as in implicit ignorance. Obs.
1625Bacon Ess., Unity Relig. (Arb.) 429 When the Peace is grounded, but vpon an implicite ignorance. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. ii. 23 Prince Maurice..hath a limited allowance; nor hath he any implicit command when he goes to the field. 1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋268 An implicite ignorance of a true and adæquate remedy.
c. transf. Of persons; Characterized by implicit faith, credulity, or obedience. ? Obs.
1694R. Franck North. Mem. (1812) 293 This curious Dish Implicit Walton calls the Swallow-Fish. 1699Burnet 39 Art. vi. (1700) 78 Too implicite in adhering to our Education, or in Submitting to the Dictates of others. a1734North Exam. iii. vi. §92 (1740) 491 Many are implicite under what is called Authority. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. lxii. 362 Be implicit. Am I not your general? 1826Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Popular Fallacies, Men are not such implicit sheep as this comes to.
¶ ? Confused with, or a mistake for, explicit.
1727Philip Quarll 29 Pray be implicite, what King have we now? 1752Fielding Amelia Wks. 1775 X. 49, I am very implicit you see; but we are all among friends. |