v. [f. pa. ppl. stem of late L. subindicāre: see SUB- 21 and INDICATE v.] trans. To indicate indirectly; to hint. So Subindication, a slight indication or token, Subindicative a., indirectly indicative or suggestive. (All Obs. or arch.)
1655–87. H. More, App. Antid. (1712), 200. Rather obscure sub-indications of the necessary Existence of a God. Ibid. (1659), Immort. Soul, II. x. 222. This Spirit of the World has Faculties that work … fatally or naturally, as several Gamaieu’s we meet withall in Nature seem somewhat obscurely to sub-indicate.
a. 1677. Barrow, Serm. (1686), III. 513. They served to the subindication and shadowing of heavenly things.
1681. H. More, Expos. Dan., vi. 233. It is an hint and a sufficiently certain though something obscure subindication.
1822. Lamb, Elia, I. Old Actors. With that sort of subindicative token of respect which one is apt to demonstrate towards a venerable stranger.
