1. To announce; to declare; to publish; to communicate; to make known. [Obs.]
He, incontinent, did proclaim and intimate open war.
E. Hall.
So both conspiring 'gan to intimate
Each other's grief.
Spenser. 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.
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. Intimately
(In"ti*mate*ly) adv. In an intimate manner.
Intimation
(In`ti*ma"tion) n. [L. intimatio: cf. F. intimation.]
1. The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.
2. Announcement; declaration. Macaulay.
They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished.
Holland. 3. A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given
only intimations of his design.
Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him.
Bp.
Burnet. Intime
(In"time) a. [See Intimate, a.] Inward; internal; intimate. [Obs.] Sir K. Digby.
Intimidate
(In*tim"i*date) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intimidated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Intimidating ] [LL. intimidatus,
p. p. of intimidare to frighten; pref. in- in + timidus fearful, timid: cf. F. intimider. See Timid.] To
make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash.
Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast,
Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
Johnson. Syn. — To dishearten; dispirit; abash; deter; frighten; terrify; daunt; cow.
Intimidation
(In*tim`i*da"tion) n. [Cf. F. intimidation.] The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring
by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation.
The king carried his measures in Parliament by intimidation.
Paley. Intimidatory
(In*tim"i*da*to*ry) a. Tending or serving to intimidate.
Intinction
(In*tinc"tion) n. [L. intinctio, fr. intingere to dip in; pref. in- in + tingere to tinge.]
1. The act of tingeing or dyeing. Blount.
2. (Eccl.) A method or practice of the administration of the sacrament by dipping the bread or wafer in
the wine and administering both together.
Intinctivity
(In`tinc*tiv"i*ty) n. [Pref. in- not + L. tinctus, p. p. of tingere to tinge] The want of the
quality of coloring or tingeing other bodies. Kirwan.
Intine
(In"tine) n. [L. intus within. Cf. Extine.] (Bot.) A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme
tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen.
