disimplicate

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.

Verb

  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.
    • And it is moreover an essential condition, enabling us to disimplicate elements which had been essentially implicated in the act of cognition itself. - 1873, George Grote, Alexander Bain, The Minor Works of George...
    • 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. - 1908, William Ralph Boyce Gibson,...
    • Though her trial carried the ugly connotations 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,...

Origin

From dis- + implicate.

Forms

disimplicates disimplicating disimplicated