单词 | reintimate |
释义 | reintimatev. transitive. To intimate again. ΚΠ 1622 H. Wotton Let. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1685) 540 Yet withal, I was not tender to re-intimate unto them, that [etc.]. 1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus 99 The consequence of Justice, as our Chancellour has largely explicated in the fourth Chapter, so does he here re-intimate, by his earnest and vehement conjuration, seising upon all that is tender and noble in him, to love and embrace Justice. 1830 Reg. Deb. Congr. U.S. 24 Feb. 191/2 Some doubts, to be sure, on the constitutionality of purchasing Louisiana, and some charges of corruption in purchasing it, are re-intimated. 1864 Brit. Millennial Harbinger 1 Mar. 98/1 No doubt but that the instance cited was really that to which the Lord alluded when he re-intimated the promise of John. 2003 J. M. Wirth Conspiracy of Life iv. 114 It is a percept of death as akin to the unfathomable depths of the past as they re-intimate themselves as the future. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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