Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUR-VI'VEN-CY, n.

A surviving; survivorship.

SUR-VIV-ER, n.

One that outlives another. [See Survivor.]

SUR-VIV-ING, ppr.

1. Outliving; living beyond the life of another, or beyond the time of some event.
2. adj. Remaining alive; yet living; as, surviving friends or relatives.

SUR-VIV-OR, n.

1. One who outlives another.
2. In law, the longer liver of two joint tenants, or of any two persons who have a joint interest in any thing. – Blackstone.

SUR-VIV-OR-SHIP, n.

1. The state of outliving another.
2. In law, the right of a joint tenant or other person who has a joint interest in an estate, to take the whole estate upon the death of the other. When there are more than two joint tenants, the whole estate remains to the last survivor by right of survivorship. – Blackstone.

SUS-CEP-TI-BIL'I-TY, n. [from susceptible.]

The quality of admitting or receiving either something additional, or some change, affection or passion; as, the susceptibility of color in a body; susceptibility of culture or refinement; susceptibility of love or desire, or of impressions.

SUS-CEP'TI-BLE, a. [Fr. from L. suscipio, to take; sub and capio.]

1. Capable of admitting any thing additional, or any change, affection or influence; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration; a body susceptible of pain; a heart susceptible of love or of impression.
2. Tender; capable of impression; impressible. The minds of children are more susceptible than those of persons more advanced in life.
3. Having nice sensibility; as, a man of a susceptible heart.

SUS-CEP'TI-BLE-NESS, n.

Susceptibility, – which see.

SUS-CEPT'I-BLY, adv.

In a susceptible manner.

SUS-CEP'TION, n.

The act of taking. [But little used.] – Ayliffe.

SUS-CEP'TIVE, a.

Capable of admitting; readily admitting. Our natures are susceptive of errors. Watts.

SUS-CEP-TIV'I-TY, n.

Capacity of admitting. [Little used.] – Wollaston.

SUS-CEP'TOR, n. [L.]

One who undertakes; a godfather.

SUS-CIP'I-EN-CY, n.

Reception; admission.

SUS-CIP'I-ENT, a.

Receiving; admitting.

SUS-CIP'I-ENT, n.

One who takes or admits; one that receives. – Bp. Taylor.

SUS'CI-TATE, v.t. [Fr. susciter; L. suscito; sub and cito.]

To rouse; to excite; to call into life and action. – Brown.

SUS'CI-TA-TED, pp.

Roused; excited.

SUS'CI-TA-TING, ppr.

Exciting; calling into life and action.

SUS-CI-TA'TION, n.

The act of raising or exciting. Pearson.

SUS'LIK, n.

A spotted animal of the marmot kind. A quadruped of the genus Arctomys, of a yellowish brown color, with small white spots; the earless marmot. – Ed. Encyc.

SUS-PECT', a.

Doubtful. [Not much used.] – Glanville.

SUS-PECT', n.

Suspicion. [Obs.] – Bacon. Shak.

SUS-PECT', v.i.

To imagine guilt. If I suspect without cause, why then let me be your jest. – Shak.

SUS-PECT', v.t. [L. suspectus, suspicio; sub and specio, to see or view.]

1. To mistrust; to imagine or have a slight opinion that something exists, but without proof and often upon weak evidence or no evidence at all. We suspect not only from fear, jealousy or apprehension of evil, but in modern usage, we suspect things which give us no apprehension. Nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little. – Bacon. From her hand I could suspect no ill. – Milton.
2. To imagine to be guilty, but upon slight evidence or without proof. When a theft is committed, we are apt to suspect a person who is known to have been guilty of stealing; but we often suspect a person who is innocent of the crime.
3. To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; as, to suspect the truth of a story.
4. To hold to be doubtful. The veracity of a historian, and the impartiality of a judge, should not be suspected.
5. To conjecture. – Philosophy of Rhetoric.