preintimation Smith-Hall preintimation: praesāgium: Join: praesagia atque indicia [futuri periculi], Vell. 2, 57: Col. Phr.: to give p.s, praesignificare [futura], Cic. Div. 1, 38, 82. See also TO INTIMATE, SIGNIFY. (Praesignificatio, Lact.)