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Implement

Ĭm'ple-ment, n.

noun

n. [Lat. implementum, fr. implere, to fill up; prefix im, for in, and plere, to fill.] Whatever may supply a want; especially an instrument or utensil as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war.

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement. Coleridge.

Ĭm'ple-ment, v. t.

verbtransitive

Sense 1. To accomplish. [Rare.] “Executed and implemented by the hand of Vanbeest Brown.” W. Scott. 2. To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied, or carried out, by means of an implement or implements. The chief mechanical requisites of the barometer are implemented in such an instrument as the following. Nichol. 3. (Scots Law.) To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement.