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An intimate friend; a confidant. Did not I say he was the Earl's Intimado? Roger North, Examen, p. 23.

But then there is a gentleman of 'no good character' (an 'intimado' of Mr. Lovelace) who is a 'constant' visiter of her, and of the people of the house, whom he 'regaleth' and 'treateth,' and hath (of consequence) their 'high good words I have thereupon taken the trouble (for I love to be 'exact' in any 'commission' I undertake) to inquire 'particularly' about this 'gentleman,' as he is called (albeit I hold no man so but by his actions: for, as Juvenal saith Nobilitas sola est, atque unica virtus And this I did 'before' I would sit down to write to you His name is Belford. — Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8
To surmount, therefore, this last and greatest difficulty, we have, in this excellent man, a professed favourite and intimado of the great. — The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2