Tacit vs Intimation - What's the difference?

As an adjective tacit

is expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.

the act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.

(en adjective)

Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.

tacit consent : consent by silence, or by not raising an objection

* 1983 , Stanley Rosen, Plato’s'' Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image , page 62:

He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer.

* 2004 , Developing Democracy in Europe: An Analytical Summary (Lawrence Pratchett, ?Vivien Lowndes; ISBN 9287155798):

(logic) Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.

* tacitly * tacitness

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(en noun)

The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.

Announcement; declaration.

* (Holland)

They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished.

A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design.

Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him.

* 1862 , (Henry David Thoreau), :

At length, perchance, the immaterial heaven will appear as much higher to the American mind, and the intimations that star it as much brighter.