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disimplicate en · VERB

Etymology

From dis- + implicate.

Meanings

1. To change the status of (someone or something) that is implicated into one where it is not implicated; to disprove or call into question an implication concerning.
   • To infer syllogistically, in the widest sense of the process, is to disimplicate from certain interrelated premisses such conclusions as the said premisses collectively necessitate. 1908, William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein, The Problem of Logic, page 216:
   • And it is moreover an essential condition, enabling us to disimplicate elements which had been essentially implicated in the act of cognition itself. 1873, George Grote, Alexander Bain, The Minor Works of George Grote, page 351:
   • Though her trial carried the ugly connotations of a perverse contagion in the body politic, her unwavering loyalty to the French king, despite his delivery of her over to the English), allowed royalist, nationalist, Catholic partisans to disimplicate themselves from the historical record of civil and theological injustice. 1999, Emily Apter, Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects, page 54:

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