implicator

Noun

implicator (plural implicators)

1. Someone or something that implicates; a sign or indicator for an implicature, or one who calls attention to the implication.
   • So likewiſe many planets in a moveable ſign; Mercury in the houſe of the Moon; or the Moon in the houſe of Merury, induce the ſame conſequences; and planets accidentally poſited, eſpecially the Moon, are obvious implicators of travelling.1790, Ebenezer Sibly, A New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences: or, The Art of Foretelling Future Events and Contingencies, page 744
   • After this had been read to the “staff” and after a reporter had been severely reprimanded for saying that “he didn’t see it,” it was printed. Emboldened by his success, the Doctor on the same day became what he calls “a recorder of developments,” and varied the role with that of an implicator of...1874 November 8, “Vagaries of Dr. Barnes in the Local Campaign”, in The Brooklyn Sunday Sun, volume 2, number 24, Brooklyn, N.Y., page 4, column 4
2. One who is involved in an unfavorable or criminal way.
   • THE practice of Duelling first took its rise in the Military department in the army, where an officer was impeached for cowardice, want of prowess, or martial fortitude; to wipe away this stigma, honorable satisfaction was required, to decide the question by display of fortitude in personal combat...1807 March 2, “Duelling”, in The Precursor, volume I, number XV, Montpelier, Vt., page [4], column 2
   • Murder at Fermoy, Arrest of Supposed Implicators in, 5 o 5 /1852, Index to the Times Newspaper, 1852. Autumnal Quarter—October 1 to December 31, Shepperton: Samuel Palmer, […], published 1886, page 28, column 2
3. One who initiates a project.
   • Skilled assistance was presumably on the spot, however, in the persons of two doctors, the original implicators of the hospital; […]1881 December 2, Medical News and Collegiate Herald, page 63, column 1
4. The antecedent of an implication.
   • Residuated implicators are quite important since a t-norm T and an implicator I can only satisfy the residuation principle T(x,y) ≤_L z ⇔ y ≤_L I(x,z) if and only if the implicator I equals the residuated implicator I_T.2008, M. Nachtegael, P. Sussner, T. Mélange, E.E. Kerre, “An Interval-Valued Fuzzy Morphological Model Based on Lukasiewicz-Operators”, in Jacques Blanc-Talon, Salah Bourennane, Wilfried Philips, Dan...