v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Intimated p. pr. & vb. n. Intimating. ] [ L. intimatus, p. p. of intimare to put, bring, drive, or press into, to announce, make known, from intimus the inmost. See Intimate, a. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 1. To announce; to declare; to publish; to communicate; to make known. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] He, incontinent, did proclaim and intimate open war. E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ] So both conspiring 'gan to intimate
Each other's grief. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To suggest obscurely or indirectly; to refer to remotely; to give slight notice of; to hint; as, he intimated his intention of resigning his office. [ 1913 Webster ] The names of simple ideas and substances, with the abstract ideas in the mind, intimate some real existence, from which was derived their original pattern. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ] | 
