implicitadj.

Brit.

/ɪmˈplɪsɪt/, U.S.

/ɪmˈplɪsᵻt/

Forms: Also 1600s implicite.

Etymology: < French implicite or < Latin implicitus , later form for implicātus implicate adj.

†1.

a. Entangled, entwined, folded or twisted together; involved. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [adjective] > intertwined or interwoven

writhenOE

twinedc1300

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wreathena1500

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implicatec1540

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wreathed?1552

texed1572

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folden1612

inextricate?1615

intertissueda1616

complicatea1626

enwreathed1631

interwoven1642

inwoven1667

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osiered1820

inwrought1824

complected1828

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internetted1849

enlaced1851

threaded1853

interknit1885

interwrought1895

pleached1896

interweaved1898

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 245 Epithets..giuen to Snakes..as..greene, infolded or implicite, horrible.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 323 The humble Shrub, And Bush with frizl'd hair implicit .

1760 J. Beattie Hares in Orig. Poems & Transl. 55 No hand had wove th' implicit maze.

figurative.1613 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Epist. in tr. Seneca Wks. (1614) 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.1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 117 Manner of handling, which is double, viz...infolded, or unfolded; implicite, or explicite.

†b. Involved in each other; overlapping. Obsolete.

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the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adjective]

altogether?c1400

concurrent1495

contemporana1500

unison1582

coincident1598

coetaneal1614

coactivea1616

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synchronisticalc1624

coetanean1625

coetaneous1649

coinstantanean1652

synchronical1652

simultal1654

contemporary1656

contemporaneous1659

simultaneousa1660

coevous1660

synchronal1660

coexistent1662

implicit1662

synchronous1669

coexistinga1676

synchronistic1685

coeval1714

contemporany1721

synchronizinga1727

joint1765

coinstantaneous1768

consentaneous1775

coinciding1786

conterminating1805

synchronic1833

coincidental1845

parallel1859

homochronous1876

monochronic1905

co-occurring1951

co-occurrent1954

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. v. §8 The uncertainty of heathen chronology, when..implicite years are given out for solid.

1705 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 2) I. iii. 367 They took implicit Years for solid, and placed those Kings in a Succession which were Cotemporary with one another.

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.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > [adjective]

covert1393

sidelinga1500

implieda1535

insinuate1534

understood1576

implicative1602

insinuated1605

reserved1607

whispered1608

interpretative1610

implicit1613

tacit1637

tacid1651

adumbrative1751

inexplicit1827

inexpress1871

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > an explanation, definition > [noun] > contextual

definition in use1910

contextual definition1934

implicit definition1959

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 366 Magike..which is by explicite or implicite compact with Divels.

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 133 And the King of France, had with his promises, and some implicite threats, commended his Brother herein.

a1671 T. Fairfax Let. in Nugæ Antiquæ (1769) I. 57 Yet, because it is but implicit, I send again to know more clearly.

1720 D. Waterland 8 Serm. Divinity of Christ 237 The Scripture-proofs of the Eternity of God the Son, are..either implicite and indirect, or explicite and direct.

1816 tr. S. F. Lacroix Elem. Treat. Differential & Integral Calculus 160 Treating the subordinate variables as implicit functions of the independent ones.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. ii. 26 Might she not be going in to buy something which had struck her fancy? This implicit falsehood passed through her mind.

1892 J. Edwards Differential Calculus (ed. 2) i. §8. 3 If the function be not expressed directly in terms of the independent variable..the function is said to be implicit.

1959 K. R. Popper Logic of Sci. Discov. iii. 72 Sometimes the axioms are described as ‘implicit definitions’ of the ideas which they introduce.

1961 E. Nagel Struct. of Sci. v. 95 The fundamental assumptions of the theory provide only implicit definitions for the theoretical notions employed in them.

1973 A. 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. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [adjective]

sundereOE

privyc1300

close1393

private1472

soleinc1475

secret1528

retired1595

implicit1610

cabinet1611

underhanda1616

closet1639

umbratile1640

closeteda1649

curtain1661

recluse1673

snug1710

pocket1804

entre nous1806

underground1820

sub rosa1824

esoterical1850

esoteric1876

1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr v. 155 One may bee an implicite Martyre, though he know not why he died.

1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo: Contemplatio Mortis (rev. ed.) 107 Deferring as well as presuming, makes many men implicite Atheists.

1660 R. Burney Κέρδιστον Δῶρον 130 All the Kings of the Earth joyn their mutual forces for the Crown, when they design Iustice; they are implicite confederates.

c. Of ideas or feelings: Contained in the mind without being clearly formulated; vague, indefinite. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > faint, imperfect idea > [adjective] > vague, feeble

implicit1660

faint1726

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > [adjective] > obscure, vague

cloudyc1400

indeterminatec1400

diffuse1430

diffused?1456

obscure?a1475

infinite1520

ambiguous1529

indistincta1530

nubilous1533

dark1557

undetermined1588

undefinite1589

undeterminate1603

indetermined1611

undefined1611

suspense1624

umbrageous1635

clouded1641

undeterminated1641

fuliginous1646

implicit1660

vague1690

diffusive1709

nubilose1730

foggy1737

unliquidated1780

hazy1781

indecisive1815

nebulous1817

penumbral1819

aoristic1846

scumbled1868

nubiform1873

out-of-focus1891

fuzzy1937

soft focus1938

1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 113 Men take up general and implicite prejudices.

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 40 'Tis no implicite, nice Aversion T' your Conversation, Meine, or Person.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. ii. 11 The Understanding hath an implicit Knowledge of these Principles, but not an explicit.

1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. iii. 307 Views and sentiments..so implicit and obscure that they often escape our strictest attention.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xv. 179 Tito's implicit desires were working themselves out now in very explicit thoughts.

d. Virtually or potentially contained in.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [adjective]

propera1325

indwelling14..

resident1525

subsistenta1530

corporate1531

immanent1535

intrinsical?1545

integral1551

inexistent1553

internal1564

subjective1564

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inward1587

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imminent1605

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intern1612

subjectory1614

intimate1632

inhesive1639

intrinsic1642

implantate1650

medullary1651

implicit1658

inexisting1678

originala1682

indwelt1855

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [adjective] > not evident, latent

potentiala1398

latentc1475

unevidentc1475

surreptitious1534

unmanifest1535

unapparent1554

unappearing1554

unmanifested1613

inevident1614

inapparenta1631

unobvious1643

immanifest1646

latitant1646

potentional1651

implicit1658

non-apparent1658

involute1669

unexposed1702

unostensible1766

1658 T. Burton Diary (1828) II. 371 All those things were implicit in my eye in the oath.

1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. ix. 112 And evolve the blessing implicit in all heaven's chastenings.

1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. vi. 245 The undeveloped conceptions that lay implicit in it have been severally marked off one from the other.

a. implicit faith (= ecclesiastical Latin 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.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > [noun] > absolute

plerophory1598

implicit faith1610

the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > [adjective] > accepting without question

mistrustless1586

unsuspicious1586

unmistrustful1587

unmistrusting1595

unsuspecting1595

unsuspicious1595

suspectless1605

implicit faith1610

distrustless1611

confidenta1616

suspicionlessc1650

undistrustful1654

unspeculative1660

unquestioning1697

unsuspectful1781

pin-faith1800

questionless1821

unspeculating1828

unsceptical1851

round-heeled1920

pistic1923

1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 70 Fidem implicitam, a faith involved and folded within the Church beleefe.

1605 A. Wotton Answere Popish Pamphlet 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.]

1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr Pref. sig. C3 The implicite faith, and blinde assent, which you were vsed heretofore to giue to the spirituall supremacy.

1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr vi. 195 The implicite Obedience, imagin'd to bee vowed to the Church in Baptisme.

1640 F. Quarles Enchyridion iv. lxxxix Hee that beleeves with an implicite Faith, is a meere Empricke in Religion.

1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 153 An implicit Reverence for the Court.

1786 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 30 An implicit respect paid to the laws of the land.

1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. ii. 102 I would place implicit confidence in an Englishman's description of the regions beyond the cataracts of the Nile.

1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 76 The Frank..learned with implicit submission his faith from the mouth of the Roman priest.

1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xii. 244 These glaring contradictions..are quite enough to hinder us from putting implicit faith in a single uncorroborated detail.

†b. Hence: Absolute, unqualified, unmitigated, as in implicit ignorance. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute

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plainc1395

cleana1400

fine?a1400

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veryc1400

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every way1628

blank1637

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errant1644

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through stitch1681

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total1702

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thorough-sped1730

regular1740

plumb1748

hollow1751

unextenuated1765

unmitigated1783

stick, stock, stone dead1796

positive1802

rank1809

heart-whole1823

skire1825

solid1830

fair1835

teetotal1840

bodacious1845

raw1856

literal1857

resounding1873

roaring1884

all out1893

fucking1893

pink1896

twenty-four carat1900

grand slam1915

stone1928

diabolical1933

fricking1937

righteous1940

fecking1952

raving1954

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 16 When the Peace is grounded, but vpon an implicite ignorance.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ ii. xv. 28 Prince Maurice..hath a limited allowance, nor hath he any implicit command when he goes to the field.

1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋268 An implicite ignorance of a true and adæquate remedy.

c. transferred. Of persons; Characterized by implicit faith, credulity, or obedience. ? Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > [adjective]

lightc1475

light-eareda1530

credulous1567

over-credulous1579

credulent1584

well-believing1620

sequacious1653

implicit1694

ultrafidiana1849

lame1942

society > authority > subjection > obedience > [adjective] > obedient > unquestioningly

implicit1694

1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 293 This curious Dish Implicit Walton calls the Swallow-Fish.

1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) vi. 78 Too implicite in adhering to our Education, or in Submitting to the Dictates of others.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vi. §92 491 Many are implicite under what is called Authority.

1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) III. lxii. 322 Be implicit. Am not I your General?

1826 C. Lamb in New Monthly Mag. 16 27 Men are not such implicit sheep as this comes to.

4. Perhaps confused with, or a mistake for, explicit.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [adjective] > explicit

expressc1386

enunciative1531

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explicit1549

unimplicit1673

explained1685

implicit1727

disimplicated1753

1727 P. Longueville Hermit 29 Pray be implicite, what King have we now?

1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. x. 89 I am very implicite you see; but we are all among Friends.

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implicit memory n. a type of memory of which a person is not consciously aware, esp. in which previous experiences aid in the performance of a task; (also) a memory of this type.

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1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 333 Consciousness on the one hand and generation on the other represent the extremes of explicit and of implicit memory.

1933 Mind 42 354 Prof. Bartlett takes ‘habit’, or accumulative, implicit memory as being the primary factor.

1963 D. Scott tr. J.-C. Filloux Memory & Forgetting ii. 57 We have already said something about this in speaking of ‘implicit’ memory; I recognize an object, a cat or my friend Peter.

1991 New Scientist 24 Aug. 40/1 Memories that reveal themselves in the absence of awareness have been termed ‘implicit memories’, and the study of implicit memory has become particularly interesting to psychologists.

2005 T. Grandin & C. Johnson Animals in Transl. v. 215 Different fields use totally different terms for conscious and unconscious memory. Some fields talk about declarative versus procedural; other fields talk about explicit versus implicit.

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Something which is implicit; that which is suggested or understood, but not directly expressed or clearly formulated. Also with the and plural agreement: implicit things collectively. Often contrasted with explicit n.¹

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1641 F. Rous Catholick Charitie iii. 228 Those points of faith which are beyond the explicites or fundamentals, & are called implicites.

1679 R. Baxter Which is True Church? iii. 152 But perhaps he spake distributively of two sorts of Faith, viz. both the Implicite and the Explicite.

1808 J. Grant Inst. Lat. Gram. 326 The implicit is when the substantive is not expressed, but is implied in the adjective going before.

1905 Homiletic Rev. Dec. 421/2 When the inward comes outward, and the implicit is made explicit, it must be in some visible embodiment.

1999 H. M. Roisman Nothing is as it Seems iv. 97 The tension between the implicit and the explicit is the major source of the play's propelling force.

2014 S. Strauss & P. Feiz Disc. Anal. p. vii The multivariate ways in which we express..ideas..: both the said and the unsaid; the explicit and the implicit.

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单词	implicit
释义	implicitadj. Brit. /ɪmˈplɪsɪt/, U.S. /ɪmˈplɪsᵻt/ Forms: Also 1600s implicite. Etymology: < French implicite or < Latin implicitus , later form for implicātus implicate adj. †1. a. Entangled, entwined, folded or twisted together; involved. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > intertwining or interweaving > [adjective] > intertwined or interwoven writhenOE twinedc1300 locked1488 wreathena1500 plait1529 implicatec1540 context?1541 twisted1548 weaved1552 wreathed?1552 texed1572 well-woven1578 woven1590 interlaced1593 entrailed1599 entest1608 implicit1608 folden1612 inextricate?1615 intertissueda1616 complicatea1626 enwreathed1631 interwoven1642 inwoven1667 intertwineda1680 plectilea1682 well-wove1690 implicated1761 osiered1820 inwrought1824 complected1828 impleached1829 internetted1849 enlaced1851 threaded1853 interknit1885 interwrought1895 pleached1896 interweaved1898 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 245 Epithets..giuen to Snakes..as..greene, infolded or implicite, horrible. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 323 The humble Shrub, And Bush with frizl'd hair implicit . View more context for this quotation 1760 J. Beattie Hares in Orig. Poems & Transl. 55 No hand had wove th' implicit maze. figurative.1613 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Epist. in tr. Seneca Wks. (1614) 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.1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 117 Manner of handling, which is double, viz...infolded, or unfolded; implicite, or explicite. †b. Involved in each other; overlapping. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adjective] altogether?c1400 concurrent1495 contemporana1500 unison1582 coincident1598 coetaneal1614 coactivea1616 contemporal1621 synchronisticalc1624 coetanean1625 coetaneous1649 coinstantanean1652 synchronical1652 simultal1654 contemporary1656 contemporaneous1659 simultaneousa1660 coevous1660 synchronal1660 coexistent1662 implicit1662 synchronous1669 coexistinga1676 synchronistic1685 coeval1714 contemporany1721 synchronizinga1727 joint1765 coinstantaneous1768 consentaneous1775 coinciding1786 conterminating1805 synchronic1833 coincidental1845 parallel1859 homochronous1876 monochronic1905 co-occurring1951 co-occurrent1954 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. v. §8 The uncertainty of heathen chronology, when..implicite years are given out for solid. 1705 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 2) I. iii. 367 They took implicit Years for solid, and placed those Kings in a Succession which were Cotemporary 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > [adjective] covert1393 sidelinga1500 implieda1535 insinuate1534 understood1576 implicative1602 insinuated1605 reserved1607 whispered1608 interpretative1610 implicit1613 tacit1637 tacid1651 adumbrative1751 inexplicit1827 inexpress1871 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > an explanation, definition > [noun] > contextual definition in use1910 contextual definition1934 implicit definition1959 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 366 Magike..which is by explicite or implicite compact with Divels. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 133 And the King of France, had with his promises, and some implicite threats, commended his Brother herein. a1671 T. Fairfax Let. in Nugæ Antiquæ (1769) I. 57 Yet, because it is but implicit, I send again to know more clearly. 1720 D. Waterland 8 Serm. Divinity of Christ 237 The Scripture-proofs of the Eternity of God the Son, are..either implicite and indirect, or explicite and direct. 1816 tr. S. F. Lacroix Elem. Treat. Differential & Integral Calculus 160 Treating the subordinate variables as implicit functions of the independent ones. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. ii. 26 Might she not be going in to buy something which had struck her fancy? This implicit falsehood passed through her mind. 1892 J. Edwards Differential Calculus (ed. 2) i. §8. 3 If the function be not expressed directly in terms of the independent variable..the function is said to be implicit. 1959 K. R. Popper Logic of Sci. Discov. iii. 72 Sometimes the axioms are described as ‘implicit definitions’ of the ideas which they introduce. 1961 E. Nagel Struct. of Sci. v. 95 The fundamental assumptions of the theory provide only implicit definitions for the theoretical notions employed in them. 1973 A. 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. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [adjective] sundereOE privyc1300 close1393 private1472 soleinc1475 secret1528 retired1595 implicit1610 cabinet1611 underhanda1616 closet1639 umbratile1640 closeteda1649 curtain1661 recluse1673 snug1710 pocket1804 entre nous1806 underground1820 sub rosa1824 esoterical1850 esoteric1876 1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr v. 155 One may bee an implicite Martyre, though he know not why he died. 1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo: Contemplatio Mortis (rev. ed.) 107 Deferring as well as presuming, makes many men implicite Atheists. 1660 R. Burney Κέρδιστον Δῶρον 130 All the Kings of the Earth joyn their mutual forces for the Crown, when they design Iustice; they are implicite confederates. c. Of ideas or feelings: Contained in the mind without being clearly formulated; vague, indefinite. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > faint, imperfect idea > [adjective] > vague, feeble implicit1660 faint1726 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > [adjective] > obscure, vague cloudyc1400 indeterminatec1400 diffuse1430 diffused?1456 obscure?a1475 infinite1520 ambiguous1529 indistincta1530 nubilous1533 dark1557 undetermined1588 undefinite1589 undeterminate1603 indetermined1611 undefined1611 suspense1624 umbrageous1635 clouded1641 undeterminated1641 fuliginous1646 implicit1660 vague1690 diffusive1709 nubilose1730 foggy1737 unliquidated1780 hazy1781 indecisive1815 nebulous1817 penumbral1819 aoristic1846 scumbled1868 nubiform1873 out-of-focus1891 fuzzy1937 soft focus1938 1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 113 Men take up general and implicite prejudices. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 40 'Tis no implicite, nice Aversion T' your Conversation, Meine, or Person. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. ii. 11 The Understanding hath an implicit Knowledge of these Principles, but not an explicit. 1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. iii. 307 Views and sentiments..so implicit and obscure that they often escape our strictest attention. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xv. 179 Tito's implicit desires were working themselves out now in very explicit thoughts. d. Virtually or potentially contained in. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [adjective] propera1325 indwelling14.. resident1525 subsistenta1530 corporate1531 immanent1535 intrinsical?1545 integral1551 inexistent1553 internal1564 subjective1564 insident1583 inward1587 inherent1588 imminent1605 inhering1609 intern1612 subjectory1614 intimate1632 inhesive1639 intrinsic1642 implantate1650 medullary1651 implicit1658 inexisting1678 originala1682 indwelt1855 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [adjective] > not evident, latent potentiala1398 latentc1475 unevidentc1475 surreptitious1534 unmanifest1535 unapparent1554 unappearing1554 unmanifested1613 inevident1614 inapparenta1631 unobvious1643 immanifest1646 latitant1646 potentional1651 implicit1658 non-apparent1658 involute1669 unexposed1702 unostensible1766 1658 T. Burton Diary (1828) II. 371 All those things were implicit in my eye in the oath. 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. ix. 112 And evolve the blessing implicit in all heaven's chastenings. 1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. 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 (= ecclesiastical Latin 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. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > [noun] > absolute plerophory1598 implicit faith1610 the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > [adjective] > accepting without question mistrustless1586 unsuspicious1586 unmistrustful1587 unmistrusting1595 unsuspecting1595 unsuspicious1595 suspectless1605 implicit faith1610 distrustless1611 confidenta1616 suspicionlessc1650 undistrustful1654 unspeculative1660 unquestioning1697 unsuspectful1781 pin-faith1800 questionless1821 unspeculating1828 unsceptical1851 round-heeled1920 pistic1923 1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 70 Fidem implicitam, a faith involved and folded within the Church beleefe. 1605 A. Wotton Answere Popish Pamphlet 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.] 1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr Pref. sig. C3 The implicite faith, and blinde assent, which you were vsed heretofore to giue to the spirituall supremacy. 1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr vi. 195 The implicite Obedience, imagin'd to bee vowed to the Church in Baptisme. 1640 F. Quarles Enchyridion iv. lxxxix Hee that beleeves with an implicite Faith, is a meere Empricke in Religion. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 153 An implicit Reverence for the Court. 1786 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 30 An implicit respect paid to the laws of the land. 1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. ii. 102 I would place implicit confidence in an Englishman's description of the regions beyond the cataracts of the Nile. 1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 76 The Frank..learned with implicit submission his faith from the mouth of the Roman priest. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest III. xii. 244 These glaring contradictions..are quite enough to hinder us from putting implicit faith in a single uncorroborated detail. †b. Hence: Absolute, unqualified, unmitigated, as in implicit ignorance. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute shirea1225 purec1300 properc1380 plainc1395 cleana1400 fine?a1400 entirec1400 veryc1400 starka1425 utterc1430 utterlyc1440 merec1443 absolute1531 outright1532 cleara1535 bloodyc1540 unproachable1544 flat1553 downright1577 sheer1583 right-down?1586 single1590 peremptory1601 perfecta1616 downa1625 implicit1625 every way1628 blank1637 out-and-outa1642 errant1644 inaccessional1651 thorough-paced1651 even down1654 dead1660 double-dyed1667 through stitch1681 through-stitched1682 total1702 thoroughgoing1719 thorough-sped1730 regular1740 plumb1748 hollow1751 unextenuated1765 unmitigated1783 stick, stock, stone dead1796 positive1802 rank1809 heart-whole1823 skire1825 solid1830 fair1835 teetotal1840 bodacious1845 raw1856 literal1857 resounding1873 roaring1884 all out1893 fucking1893 pink1896 twenty-four carat1900 grand slam1915 stone1928 diabolical1933 fricking1937 righteous1940 fecking1952 raving1954 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 16 When the Peace is grounded, but vpon an implicite ignorance. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ ii. xv. 28 Prince Maurice..hath a limited allowance, nor hath he any implicit command when he goes to the field. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋268 An implicite ignorance of a true and adæquate remedy. c. transferred. Of persons; Characterized by implicit faith, credulity, or obedience. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > over-readiness to believe, credulity > [adjective] lightc1475 light-eareda1530 credulous1567 over-credulous1579 credulent1584 well-believing1620 sequacious1653 implicit1694 ultrafidiana1849 lame1942 society > authority > subjection > obedience > [adjective] > obedient > unquestioningly implicit1694 1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 293 This curious Dish Implicit Walton calls the Swallow-Fish. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) vi. 78 Too implicite in adhering to our Education, or in Submitting to the Dictates of others. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vi. §92 491 Many are implicite under what is called Authority. 1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) III. lxii. 322 Be implicit. Am not I your General? 1826 C. Lamb in New Monthly Mag. 16 27 Men are not such implicit sheep as this comes to. 4. Perhaps confused with, or a mistake for, explicit. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [adjective] > explicit expressc1386 enunciative1531 explicate1532 expressed1534 explicit1549 unimplicit1673 explained1685 implicit1727 disimplicated1753 1727 P. Longueville Hermit 29 Pray be implicite, what King have we now? 1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. x. 89 I am very implicite you see; but we are all among Friends. Draft additions March 2014 implicit memory n. a type of memory of which a person is not consciously aware, esp. in which previous experiences aid in the performance of a task; (also) a memory of this type. ΚΠ 1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 333 Consciousness on the one hand and generation on the other represent the extremes of explicit and of implicit memory. 1933 Mind 42 354 Prof. Bartlett takes ‘habit’, or accumulative, implicit memory as being the primary factor. 1963 D. Scott tr. J.-C. Filloux Memory & Forgetting ii. 57 We have already said something about this in speaking of ‘implicit’ memory; I recognize an object, a cat or my friend Peter. 1991 New Scientist 24 Aug. 40/1 Memories that reveal themselves in the absence of awareness have been termed ‘implicit memories’, and the study of implicit memory has become particularly interesting to psychologists. 2005 T. Grandin & C. Johnson Animals in Transl. v. 215 Different fields use totally different terms for conscious and unconscious memory. Some fields talk about declarative versus procedural; other fields talk about explicit versus implicit. Draft additions June 2016 Something which is implicit; that which is suggested or understood, but not directly expressed or clearly formulated. Also with the and plural agreement: implicit things collectively. Often contrasted with explicit n.¹ ΚΠ 1641 F. Rous Catholick Charitie iii. 228 Those points of faith which are beyond the explicites or fundamentals, & are called implicites. 1679 R. Baxter Which is True Church? iii. 152 But perhaps he spake distributively of two sorts of Faith, viz. both the Implicite and the Explicite. 1808 J. Grant Inst. Lat. Gram. 326 The implicit is when the substantive is not expressed, but is implied in the adjective going before. 1905 Homiletic Rev. Dec. 421/2 When the inward comes outward, and the implicit is made explicit, it must be in some visible embodiment. 1999 H. M. Roisman Nothing is as it Seems iv. 97 The tension between the implicit and the explicit is the major source of the play's propelling force. 2014 S. Strauss & P. Feiz Disc. Anal. p. vii The multivariate ways in which we express..ideas..: both the said and the unsaid; the explicit and the implicit. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1608
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