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IMPLEMENT (Lat. implementum, a fillin...

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 343 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IMPLEMENT (See also:Lat. implementum, a filling up, from implere, to fill)  , in See also:ordinary usage, a See also:tool, especially in the plural for the set of tools necessary for a particular See also:trade or for completing a particular piece of See also:work (see Tools) . It is also the most See also:general See also:term applied to the weapons and tools that remain of those used by See also:primitive See also:man . The See also:Late See also:Lat. implementum, more usually in the plural, implementa, was used for all the See also:objects necessary to stock or " fill up " a See also:house, See also:farm, &c.; it was thus applied to See also:furniture of a house, the See also:vestments and sacred vessels of a See also:church, and to articles of clothing, &c . The transition to the necessary outfit of a trade, &c., is easy . In its See also:original Latin sense of " filling up," the term survives in Scots See also:law, meaning full performance or " fulfilment " of a See also:contract, agreement, &c.; " to See also:implement " is thus also used in Scots law for to carry out, perform .

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