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Someone or something that implicates; a sign or indicator for an implicature, or one who calls attention to the implication.
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So likewiſe many planets in a moveable ſign; Mercury in the houſe of the Moon; or the Moon in the houſe of Merury, induce the ſame conſequences; and planets accidentally poſited, eſpecially the Moon, are obvious implicators of travelling.
After this had been read to the “staff” and after a reporter had been severely reprimanded for saying that “he didn’t see it,” it was printed. Emboldened by his success, the Doctor on the same day became what he calls “a recorder of developments,” and varied the role with that of an implicator of “systems,” in the following: […]
According to Grice, conversational implicators know they are implicating something novel and signal to their listener not only that they are doing so but how it is to be taken; conventional implicators implicate things all unawares, drawing on dead metaphors, fossilized implications, implicatures that were once dynamic but have long since become immediatized through long repetition.
One who is involved in an unfavorable or criminal way.
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THE practice of Duelling first took its rise in the Military department in the army, where an officer was impeached for cowardice, want of prowess, or martial fortitude; to wipe away this stigma, honorable satisfaction was required, to decide the question by display of fortitude in personal combat with the implicator at sword and pistol.
Murder at Fermoy, Arrest of Supposed Implicators in, 5 o 5 /
The Chamber of Indictments decided to-day to send 50 individual implicators in the recent conspiracy for trial before the high court of justice.
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S. M. Farmer, city Marshal of Ft. Worth, Texas, and Deputy U. S. Marshal for the State of Texas, passed through this city to-day from Leadville, Colorado, with John Catiell and Henry Williams, two noted burglars and implicators in the recent mail robbery at Ft. Worth, taking them back to the scenes of their depredations.
The star route trial has at last closed. S. W. Dorsey, alleged to have been one of the conspirators and implicators, after a three months trial, has been found not guilty and was acquitted.
Maciag tried to argue that Portis was actually forced to consume the vodka by the patients who told on him, whom Maciag referred to throughout the hearing as Implicator A and Implicator B.
One who initiates a project.
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Skilled assistance was presumably on the spot, however, in the persons of two doctors, the original implicators of the hospital; […]
The antecedent of an implication.
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Residuated implicators are quite important since a t-norm T and an implicator I can only satisfy the residuation principle T(x,y) ≤_L z ⇔ y ≤_L I(x,z) if and only if the implicator I equals the residuated implicator I_T.