subindicate

English

Etymology

sub- +‎ indicate

Verb

subindicate (third-person singular simple present subindicates, present participle subindicating, simple past and past participle subindicated)

1. (transitive) To indicate by signs or hints; to indicate imperfectly.
   • 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC:

     For this Spirit of the World has Faculties that work not by Election, but fatally or naturally , as several Gamaicus we meet withall in Nature seem somewhat obscurely to subindicate

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “subindicate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• dubitancies