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Indite vs Implicate - What's the difference?

indite | implicate |

As a noun indite

is .

As a verb implicate is

to connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something.

indite

English

Alternative forms

* endite * indict

Verb

(indit)
  • To physically make letters and words on a writing surface; to inscribe
  • To write, especially a literary or artistic work; to compose
  • * 1844 ,
  • It is certain that the mere act of inditing tends, in a great degree, to the logicalisation of thought. Whenever, on account of its vagueness, I am dissatisfied with a conception of the brain, I resort forthwith to the pen, for the purpose of obtaining, through its aid, the necessary form, consequence, and precision.
  • To dictate; to prompt.
  • * Bible, Psalms xlv. 1
  • My heart is inditing a good matter.
  • * South
  • Could a common grief have indited such expressions?
  • (obsolete) To invite or ask.
  • * Shakespeare
  • She will indite him to supper.
  • (obsolete) To indict; to accuse; to censure.
  • * (rfdate) Spenser, Amoretti , III.14:
  • the wonder that my wit cannot endite

    Anagrams

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    Noun

    (-)
  • (mineralogy) An extremely rare indium-iron sulfide mineral.
  • ----

    implicate

    English

    Verb

    (implicat)
  • To connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= A punch in the gut , passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
  • To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.
  • (archaic) To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.
  • See also

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