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- noun Something that is
implied even though notexpressed
Etymologies
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Examples
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(A.) giving to all collectively the unity of their common orbit; but likewise supplies, by a sort of subintelligitur, the one central power, which renders the movement harmonious and cyclical.
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Shakspeare's Ague-cheek, Osric, &c. are displayed through others, in the course of social intercourse, by the mode of their performing some office in which they are employed; but Massinger's 'Sylli' come forward to declare themselves fools 'ad arbitrium auctoris,' and so the diction always needs the 'subintelligitur' ( 'the man looks as if he thought so and so,') expressed in the language of the satirist, and not in that of the man himself: --
Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
whichbe commented on the word subintelligitur
n. - a meaning implied but not stated.
May 16, 2008