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   Intimate , a. [Formerly intime, L. intimus, a superl. corresponding to the compar. interior: cf. F. intime. The form intimate is due to confusion with intimate, v. t. See Interior.]
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   Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. “I knew from intimate impulse.”  
   Milton.
   
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   Near; close; direct; thorough; complete.
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   He was honored with an intimate and immediate admission.
   South.
   
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   Close in friendship or acquaintance; familiar; confidential; as, an intimate friend.
   Syn. -- Familiar; near; friendly; confidential.
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   Intimate, n. An intimate friend or associate; a confidant.
   Gov. of the Tongue.
   
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   Intimate , 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.]
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   To announce; to declare; to publish; to communicate; to make known. [Obs.]
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   He, incontinent, did proclaim and intimate open war.
   E. Hall.
   
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   So both conspiring 'gan to intimate
   Each other's grief.
   Spenser.
   
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   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.
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   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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