“insinuate” in Latin

TRANS., To insinuate one’s self, irrepere in etc. (PROP. and figuratively); arrepere; into anything, alicui rei or ad aliquid: subrepere, obrepere; with anybody, alicui (PROP. and figuratively; with the idea of what is gradual and imperceptible): se insinuare; in or between, etc., in or inter, etc. (to penetrate anywhere through curves and windings, PROP. and figuratively; e.g., inter turmas equitum; in alicujus familiaritatem): vice insinuates itself under the name of virtue, vitia nobis obrepunt sub virtutis nomine (Sen., Ep., 45, 6): an evil insinuates itself, malum se insinuat: a vice insinuates itself, vitium subrepit. To insinuate one’s self into anybody’s good graces, irrepere in alicujus mentem, arrepere alicujus animo, influere in alicujus animum, ad alicujus amicitiam arrepere (figuratively, to insinuate one’s self into anybody’s friendship, etc.): blanditiis et assentationibus alicujus amicitiam colligere or in alicujus consuetudinem se immergere; blanditiis et assentationibus alicujus benevolentiam sibi adjungere (after Cic., Muren., 20, 41); blanditiis influere in aures alicujus (these, of course, with reference to deceitful methods); insinuare se in alicujus familiaritatem (by tortuous methods); gratiam sibi parere apud aliquem (general term, to make one’s self liked by anybody): to endeavor to insinuate one’s self into anybody’s favor, assentatiunculā aucupari alicujus gratiam; locum gratiae apud aliquem quaerere: insinuating, blandus.

To infuse gradually (e.g., doctrines, notions), instillare alicui aliquid (Hor., Ep., 1, 8, 16; Sen., Benef., 6, 16; but probably quite allowable in prose: Cic., uses restillare: quae [litterae] mihi quiddam quasi animulae restillarunt; Att. 9, 7, 1).

To make an insinuation; Vid: To HINT.