Both Uses
imply
in
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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- The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.†
*implies = suggests (says indirectly)
- I designed to imply that the deductions are the sole proper ones, and that the suspicion arises inevitably from them as the single result.†
imply = suggest (say indirectly)
Definitions:
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(1)
(imply) to suggest or say indirectly -- possibly as a logical consequence
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)