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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Intimate \In"ti*mate\, 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.] 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.
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