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implicit

Maths (of a function) having an equation of the form f(x,y) = 0, in which y cannot be directly expressed in terms of x, as in xy + x2 + y3x 2 = 0
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His days could have been devoted to searching for her; but he implicitly believed that she was dead.
For the rest, I put my trust, implicitly, in the spirit in which they have been conceived and penned; and I can bide my time.
"Do so, implicitly. Your suspense is nearly ended, my darling; he shall be restored to you within a few hours; I have encompassed him with every protection.
The partnership with Jonathan Burge was not to be thought of at present--there were things implicitly tacked to it that he could not accept; but Adam thought that he and Seth might carry on a little business for themselves in addition to their journeyman's work, by buying a small stock of superior wood and making articles of household furniture, for which Adam had no end of contrivances.
While others, implicitly crediting the most extravagant fictions, firmly believe that there are people in the world with tastes so depraved that they would infinitely prefer a single mouthful of material humanity to a good dinner of roast beef and plum pudding.
Though he believed implicitly everything he saw in print, he had learned already that in the Bible things that said one thing quite clearly often mysteriously meant another.
I cannot say that I implicitly obeyed my own injunctions: but such reasoning as this became more and more effective as time wore on, and nothing was seen or heard of Mr.
"I should require him to obey me implicitly, whatever I told him to do.
Vasili Andreevich no longer gave orders but implicitly did what Nikita told him.
Delvin was rich enough to believe implicitly in the power of money.
Duterte implicitly voiced support for such unlawful brutality by stating that police can rightly put illegal drug suspects 'below the ground' if necessary.
This is good, but yet again he pointedly stated that the PFI deal in Halifax was signed off in 1998 (thus implicitly blaming the Labour government).
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