disimplicate

disimplicate

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ implicate

Verb

disimplicate (third-person singular simple present disimplicates, present participle disimplicating, simple past and past participle disimplicated)

1. To change the status of (someone or something) that is implicated into one where it is not implicated; to disprove or call into question an implication concerning.
   • 1873, George Grote, ‎Alexander Bain, The Minor Works of George Grote, page 351:

     And it is moreover an essential condition, enabling us to disimplicate elements which had been essentailly implicated in the act of cognition itself.

   • 1908, William Ralph Boyce Gibson, ‎Augusta Klein, The Problem of Logic, page 216:

     To infer syllogistically, in the widest sense of the process, is to disimplicate from certain interrelated premisses such conclusions as the said premisses collectively necessitate.

   • 1999, Emily Apter, Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects, page 54:

     Though her trial carried the ugly conotations of a perverse contagion in the body politic, her unwavering loyalty to the French king, despite his delivery of her over to the English), allowed royalist, nationalist, Catholic partisans to disimplicate themselves from the historical record of civil and theological injustice.