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单词 intimation
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intimationn.

/ɪntɪˈmeɪʃən/
Etymology: < French intimation (1394 in Godefroy Compl.), < late Latin intimātiōn-em (in medieval Latin spec. judicial notification), noun of action from intimāre to intimate v.
1.
a. The action of intimating, making known, or announcing; formal notification or announcement; †formerly, declaration (of war).
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society > communication > information > intimation or making known > [noun]
warningc1386
knowinga1398
notice1415
notification1415
advisement?a1425
advertisement1426
intimation1442
advertising1525
note1597
card1761
society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > declaration of war
declaration of wara1387
intimation1548
1442–3 in J. Raine Corr. Priory of Coldingham (1841) 148 Discorde heirupon raysit..I made til hym intimacion of my richts be ȝour lettres.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxxiiij The defiaunce, dooen by your Herault as a paremptory intimacion of warre.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1316 They made an edict, with an intimation, that whosoever killed a storke should be banished.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xviii. 518 I therefore give this intimation, because..it is the interest of the Nation..to be informed of abuses in their Factories.
1830 W. Scott Old Mortality Introd., in Tales of my Landlord (new ed.) I. 234 As soon as his body was found, intimation was sent to his sons at Balmaclellan.
1858 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 393 My acknowledgement of the intimation of her uncle's death.
1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 471 Intimation is a step necessary in certain circumstances for the complete transference of a right.
b. Law. Notification of a requirement made by law, coupled with an announcement of the penalty that will be incurred in case of default. ? Obsolete.
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society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > notification
monitionc1460
signification1533
warning1579
garnishment1585
intimation1632
factorizing1809
originating notice1881
legal1896
1632 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 263 Elizabeth Holland a woman of ill reporte and her husband were called upon an intimation of 100 l.
1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 59 Craving Precepts or Letters of Intimation, for intimating to his Majesty's Advocate..to fix a Day for his Trial, within sixty Days next after the Intimation, under the Pains and Certifications contained in the Statute.
2. The action of making known or expressing merely; an expression by sign or token, an indication; a suggestion, a hint.
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society > communication > indication > [noun] > an indication or sign
tokeningc888
fingereOE
senyeOE
markOE
showing?c1225
blossomc1230
signa1325
signifyingc1384
evidencea1393
notea1398
forbysena1400
kenninga1400
knowinga1400
showerc1400
unningc1400
signala1413
signification?a1425
demonstrancec1425
cenyc1440
likelinessc1450
ensign1474
signifure?a1475
outshowinga1500
significativea1500
witter1513
precedent1518
intimation1531
signifier1532
meith1533
monument1536
indicion?1541
likelihood1541
significator1554
manifest1561
show1561
evidency1570
token-teller1574
betokener1587
calendar1590
instance1590
testificate1590
significant1598
crisis1606
index1607
impression1613
denotementa1616
story1620
remark1624
indicium1625
denotation1633
indice1636
signum1643
indiction1653
trace1656
demonstrator1657
indication1660
notationa1661
significatory1660
indicator1666
betrayer1678
demonstration1684
smell1691
wittering1781
notaa1790
blazonry1850
sign vehicle1909
marker1919
rumble1927
society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > [noun]
feelc1485
inkling1529
intimation1531
insinuation1532
by-warning1542
byword1542
item1561
cue1565
air1567
vent1613
insusurration1614
hinta1616
injection1622
indication1626
infusion1641
side glance1693
ground bass1699
touch1706
side view1747
sidewipe1757
allusion1766
penumbra1770
breath1795
slyness1823
by-hint1853
light1854
shove1857
suggestion1863
sous-entendu1865
point1870
sidewiper1870
sniff1936
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xxi. sig. Li The associatinge of man & woman in daunsing..was nat begonne without a speciall consideration, as well for the necessarye coniunction of those two persones, as for the intimation of sondry vertues.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. iii. §9 Where he doth give the least intimation of Manetho being elder then Alexander, I am yet to seek.
1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature & Cure Calculus 23 He..felt from time to time some slight pains or intimations of pain.
1815 W. Wordsworth Poems II. 345 (title of poem) Intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 404 I have often had intimations in dreams.
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