- to prosecute or sue in a law court
- to bring into an action by impleader
Origin of implead
Middle English enpleden from Anglo-French enpleder from Old French emplaidier: see in- and pleadOrigin of implead
Middle English enpleden from Anglo-French enpleder from Old French emplaidier: see in- and plead
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transitive verb
im·plead·ed, im·plead·ing, im·pleadsOrigin of implead
Middle English empleden from Anglo-Norman empleder variant of Old French emplaider en- intensive pref. ( from Latin in- ; see in- 2. ) plaidier to plead ; see plead .
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(third-person singular simple present impleads, present participle impleading, simple past and past participle impleaded)
in- + plead
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"implead." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 14 January 2019. <https://www.yourdictionary.com/implead>.
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implead. (n.d.). Retrieved January 14th, 2019, from https://www.yourdictionary.com/implead