Part 5616

<hw>Im*pleas"ing</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Unpleasing; displeasing</def>. <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Overbury.</i>

<h1>Impledge</h1> <Xpage=736>

<hw>Im*pledge"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To pledge.</def>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<h1>Implement</h1> <Xpage=736>

<hw>Im"ple*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>implementum</ets> accomplishment, fr. L. <ets>implere</ets>, <ets>impletum</ets>, to fill up, finish, complete; pref. <ets>im-</ets> in + <ets>plere</ets> to fill. The word was perh. confuse with OF. <ets>empleier</ets>, <ets>emploier</ets>, to employ, F. <ets>employer</ets>, whence E. <ets>employ</ets>. See <er>Plenty</er>.]</ety> <def>That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; <as>as, the <ex>implements</ex> of trade, of husbandry, or of war</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Genius must have talent as its complement and <b>implement</b>. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Implement</h1> <Xpage=736>

<hw>Im"ple*ment</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To accomplish; to fulfill.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Revenge . . . executed and <b>implemented</b> by the hand of Vanbeest Brown. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied, or carried out, by means of an implement or implements.</def>

<blockquote>The chief mechanical requisites of the barometer are <b>implemented</b> in such an instrument as the following. <i>Nichol.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Scots Law)</fld> <def>To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement.</def>

<h1>Implemental</h1> <Xpage=736>

<hw>Im`ple*men"tal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to, or characterized by, implements or their use; mechanical.</def>

<h1>Impletion</h1> <Xpage=736>

<hw>Im*ple"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>impletio</ets>. See <er>Implement</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of filling, or the state of being full.</def>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which fills up; filling.</def>

<i>Coleridge.</i>

<h1>Implex</h1> <Xpage=736>

<hw>Im"plex</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>implexus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>implectere</ets> to infold; pref. <ets>im-</ets> in + <ets>plectere</ets> to plait: cf. F <ets>implexe</ets>.]</ety> <def>Intricate; entangled; complicated; complex.</def>

<blockquote>The fable of every poem is . . . simple or <b>implex</b>. it is called simple when there is no change of fortune in it; <b>implex</b>, when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good, or from good to bad. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Implexion</h1> <Xpage=736>

<hw>Im*plex"ion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>implexio</ets>.]</ety> <def>Act of involving, or state of being involved; involution.</def>

<h1>Impliable</h1> <Xpage=736>

<hw>Im*pli"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Not pliable; inflexible; inyielding.</def>