implication Copy link • implication: Phr.: to say a thing by i., not directly, intelligi velle potius quam dicere, cf. Quint. 6, 3, 88: if something bad is to be understood, per suspicionem dicere, Quint. l. c.: there is here something stated by i., *subest his verbis sensus quidam: v. to imply. Sometimes, esp. in legal lang., tacite = by implication: Nerat. Dig. 20, 2, 4.
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).