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Webster 1913 Edition
Involve
In-volve′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Involved
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Involving
.] 1.
To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
Some of serpent kind . . .
Their snaky folds.
involved
Their snaky folds.
Milton.
2.
To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
And leave a singèd bottom all
With stench and smoke.
involved
With stench and smoke.
Milton.
3.
To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
“Involved discourses.” Locke.
4.
To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
He knows
His end with mine
His end with mine
involved
. Milton.
The contrary necessarily
involves
a contradiction. Tillotson.
5.
To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
[R.]
The gathering number, as it moves along,
Involves
a vast involuntary throng. Pope.
Earth with hell
To mingle and
To mingle and
involve
. Milton.
6.
To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass;
as, to
. involve
a person in debt or misery7.
To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
“Involved in a deep study.” Sir W. Scott.
Syn. – To imply; include; implicate; complicate; entangle; embarrass; overwhelm.
– To
Involve
, Imply
. Imply is opposed to express, or set forth; thus, an implied engagement is one fairly to be understood from the words used or the circumstances of the case, though not set forth in form. Involve goes beyond the mere interpretation of things into their necessary relations; and hence, if one thing involves another, it so contains it that the two must go together by an indissoluble connection. War, for example, involves wide spread misery and death; the premises of a syllogism involve the conclusion. Webster 1828 Edition
Involve
INVOLVE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To envelop; to cover with surrounding matter; as, to involve one in smoke or dust.2.
To envelop in any thing which exists on all sides; as, to involve in darkness or obscurity.3.
To imply; to comprise. To be and not to be at the same time, involves a contradiction.4.
To entwist; to join; to connect. He knows his end with mine involved.
5.
To take in; to catch; to conjoin. The gathering number, as it moves along,
Involves a vast involuntary throng.
6.
To entangle. Let not our enemy involve the nation in war, nor our imprudence involve us in difficulty.7.
To plunge; to overwhelm. Extravagance often involves men in debt and distress.8.
To inwrap; to infold; to complicate or make intricate. Some involved their snaky folds.
Florid, witty, involved discourses.
9.
To blend; to mingle confusedly. 10. In algebra, to raise a quantity from the root to any assigned power; as a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.