Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUS-PECT'A-BLE, a.

That may be suspected. [Little used.]

SUS-PECT'ED, pp.

Imagined without proof; mistrusted.

SUS-PECT'ED-LY, adv.

So as to excite suspicion; so as to be suspected.

SUS-PECT'ED-NESS, n.

State of being suspected or doubted. – Robinson.

SUS-PECT'ER, n.

One who suspects.

SUS-PECT'FUL, a.

Apt to suspect or mistrust. – Bailey.

SUS-PECT'ING, ppr.

Imagining without evidence; mistrusting upon slight grounds.

SUS-PECT'LESS, a.

1. Not suspecting; having no suspicion. – Herbert.
2. Not suspected; not mistrusted. – Beaum.

SUS-PEND', v.t. [Fr. suspendre; It. sospendere; Sp. suspender; L. suspendo; sub and pendo, to hang.]

1. To hang; to attach to something above; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend the body by a cord or by hooks; a needle suspended by a lodestone.
2. To make to depend on. God hath suspended the promise of eternal life on the condition of faith and obedience.
3. To interrupt; to intermit; to cause to cease for a time. The guard nor fights nor flies; their fate so near / At once suspends their courage and their fear. – Denham.
4. To stay; to delay; to hinder from proceeding for a time. Suspend your indignation against my brother. – Shak. I suspend their doom. – Milton.
5. To hold in a state undetermined; as, to suspend one's choice or opinion. – Locke.
6. To debar from any privilege, from the execution of an office, or from the enjoyment of income. Good men should not be suspended from the exercise of their ministry and deprived of their livelihood, for ceremonies which are acknowledged indifferent. – Sanderson.
7. To cause to cease for a time from operation or effect; as, to suspend the habeas corpus act.

SUS-PEND'ED, pp.

Hung up; made to depend on; caused to cease for a time; delayed; held undetermined; prevented from executing an office or enjoying a right.

SUS-PEND'ER, n.

1. One that suspends.
2. Suspenders, [plur.] straps worn for holding up pantaloons, &c.; braces.

SUS-PEND'ING, ppr.

Hanging up; making to depend on; intermitting; causing to cease for a time; holding undetermined; debarring from action or right.

SUS-PENSE, a. [suspens'.]

Held from proceeding. [little used.] – Milton.

SUS-PENSE', n. [suspens'; L. suspensus.]

1. A state of uncertainty; indetermination; indecision. A man's mind is in suspense, when it is balancing the weight of different arguments or considerations, or when it is uncertain respecting facts unknown, or events not in his own power. Ten days the prophet in suspense remain'd. – Denham.
2. Stop; cessation for a time. A cool suspense from pleasure or from pain. – Pope.
3. In law, suspension; a temporary cessation of a man's right; as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.

SUS-PENS-I-BIL'I-TY, n.

The capacity of being suspended or sustained from sinking; as, the suspensibility of indurated clay in water. – Kirwan.

SUS-PENS'I-BLE, a.

Capable of being suspended or held from sinking.

SUS-PEN'SION, n. [Fr. from L. suspensio. See Suspend.]

1. The act of hanging up, or of causing to hang by being attached to something above.
2. The act of making to depend on any thing for existence or taking place; as, the suspension of payment on the performance of a condition.
3. The act of delaying; delay; as, the suspension of a criminal's execution; called a respit or reprieve.
4. Act of withholding or balancing the judgment; forbearance of determination; as, the suspension of opinion, of, judgment, of decision or determination. Suspension of judgment often proceeds from doubt or ignorance of facts.
5. Temporary cessation; interruption; intermission; as, the suspension of labor or of study; the suspension or pain.
6. Temporary privation of powers, authority or rights; usually intended as a censure or punishment; as, the suspension of an ecclesiastic or minister for some fault. This may be merely a suspension of his office, or it may be both of his office and his income. A military or naval officer's suspension takes place when he is arrested.
7. Prevention or interruption of operation; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act.
8. In rhetoric, a keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations.
9. In Scots law, a stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory, by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary. – Cyc.
10. In mechanics, points of suspension, in a balance, are the points in the axis or beam where the weights are applied, or from which they are suspended. – Cyc.
11. In music, every sound of a chord to a given base, which is continued to another base, is a suspension. – Cyc. Suspension of arms, in war, a short truce or cessation of operations agreed on by the commanders of the contending parties, as for burying the dead, making proposals for surrender or for peace, &c. – Cyc.

SUS-PENS'IVE, a.

Doubtful. – Beaum.

SUS-PENS'OR, n.

In surgery, a bandage to impend the scrotum.

SUS-PENS'O-RY, a.

That suspends; suspending; as, a suspensory muscle.

SUS-PENS'O-RY, n.

That which suspends or holds up; a truss.

SUS'PI-CA-BLE, a. [L. suspicor.]

That may be suspected; liable to suspicion. [Not in use.] – More.

SUS-PI'CION, n. [Fr. from L. suspicio. See Sped.]

The act of suspecting; the imagination of the existence of something without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence at all. Suspicion often proceeds from the apprehension of evil; it is the offspring or companion of jealousy. Suspicions among thoughts, are like bats among birds; they ever fly by twilight. – Bacon.

SUS-PI'CIOUS, a. [L. suspiciosus.]

1. Inclined to suspect; apt to imagine without proof. Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious, and no man can love the person he suspects. – South.
2. Indicating suspicion or fear. We have a suspicious, fearful, constrained countenance. – Swift.
3. Liable to suspicion; adapted to raise suspicion; giving reason to imagine ill; as, an author of suspicious innovations. – Hooker. I spy black suspicious threat'ning cloud. – Shak.
4. Entertaining suspicion; given to suspicion. Many mischievous insects are daily at work to making men of merit suspicious of each other. – Pope.

SUS-PI'CIOUS-LY, adv.

1. With suspicion.
2. So as to excite suspicion. – Sidney.