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.