[L., 3rd pers. sing. pres. indic. pass. of subintelligĕre (var. of -intellegĕre), f. sub- SUB- 24 + intellegĕre (see INTELLECT).] An unexpressed or implied addition to a statement, etc. (Cf. SUBAUDITUR.)
1649. Blithe, Engl. Improver Impr. (1652), 174. Unless you please to take that for a Discovery which is by a Subintelligitur.
1681. T. Flatman, Heraclitus Ridens, No. 3 (1713), I. 13. You must, First, know that W. and Ours, is to be construed with a Subintelligitur.
a. 1734. North, Exam., I. ii. § 8 (1740), 35. He took Sanctuary for Protection of Liberty and Life: Against what? The Tyranny of the then English Government. That’s his Subintelligitur.
1817. Coleridge, Biog. Lit., xii. (1907), I. 181 [The imagination] supplies, by a sort of subintelligitur, the one central power.
1886. Jowett, in Life & Lett. (1897), II. 313. We pray to God as a Person, a larger self; but there must always be a subintelligitur that He is not a Person.
