IMPLICATION Copy link • IMPLICATIONEntanglement, implicatio (e.g., nervorum). An implied consequence; a tacit inference, etc., by circumlocution. By implication, implicite et abscondite (opposed to patentius et expeditius, Cic.; but this implies the necessity of disentangling, as it were, the implied fact or consequence): quodammodo tacite (silently, as it were; not by an explicit statement). The law itself, by implication, gives him the right of defending, etc., quodammodo tacite dat ipsa lex potestatem defendendi (Cic., Mil., 4, 11).