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▪ I. † suˈggest, n. Obs.
[ad. L. suggestus (u-stem), f. suggest-, suggerĕre to suggest.]
= suggestion.
16..in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. App. 12 The reasons of the suggests are these, [etc.]. 1639G. Daniel Ecclus. xxvi. 73 Whose vertues countermand The loose Suggests of frailtie. 1652C. B. Stapylton Herodian xiv. 113 By thy suggest was Abel kill'd of Cain.
▪ II. suggest, v.|səˈdʒɛst|
Also 6 sugiest.
[f. L. suggest-, pa. ppl. stem of suggerĕre, f. sug- = sub- 2 + gerĕre to bear, carry, bring.]
1. a. trans. To cause to be present to the mind as an object of thought, an idea to be acted upon, a question or problem to be solved; in early use said esp. of insinuating or prompting to evil. In extended application, to propose as an explanation or solution, as a course of action, as a person or thing suitable for a purpose, or the like.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 124 b, The aungell of sathanas..euer suggestynge & mouynge some vyce, vnder the colour of vertue. 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 651 Disturbing Jealousy..Gives false alarms, suggesteth mutiny. 1595Daniel Civ. Wars iii. ii, Succession, conquest, and election straight Suggested are. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 148 These men..ceased not continually to suggest vnto him high conceits of himselfe. 1665Glanvill Def. Van. Dogm. 34 What the Gentleman himself suggests were answer sufficient. 1671Milton P.R. i. 355 Why dost thou then suggest to me distrust? 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 161 A Country most remote from us..and consequently it would be suggested as unprofitable to our Commerce. 1779Mirror No. 24 In the Allegro, meaning to excite a cheerful mood, he suggests a variety of objects. 1854Milman Lat. Christ. iii. vii. (1864) II. 156 Gregory dwells on the advantage of being thus constantly suggested to the prayers of friends. a1859Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxiii. V. 90, I proposed that King James should retire to Rome or Modena. Then you suggested Avignon; and I assented. 1861Paley æschylus (ed. 2) Supplices 680 note, The MSS. have προµαθεὺς or προµηθεύς. Dobree suggested προµαθής. 1886Baring-Gould Court Royal v, I would suggest your following me into my sanctum sanctorum. 1901Cycl. Tour. Club Gaz. Oct. 389 It is difficult to suggest a remedy.
b. Said of the conscience, feelings, etc.; hence, of external things, to prompt the execution of, provide a motive for.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 93 He that hath the first diuine calling (his conscience suggesting the same vnto him). 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 31 A great many..have lost also the best endeavours their wit could suggest them. 1749Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. §2. 347 The frequent making of Hypotheses..would suggest numerous Phaenomena, that otherwise escape notice. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. xvi. (1782) I. 655 Prudence suggested the necessity of a temporary retreat. 1833H. Coleridge Biogr. Borealis 6 His poem, called ‘Flecnoe, an English Priest’, which is supposed to have suggested to Dryden his famous satire of McFlecnoe. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. xiv. (1858) 473 The sky, the flowers, the trees, the fields, which suggested the Parables. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 182 The punishments to be inflicted on slaves are suggested by the cruelty of fear. 1880L. Stephen Pope iii. 77 The success of the Iliad naturally suggested an attempt upon the Odyssey.
c. Const. clause or inf.: To put forward the notion, opinion, or proposition (that, etc.).
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 124 b, Whan..he suggesteth or moueth to man or woman to do suche thinges that he wolde haue them to do. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa 415 They suggested vnto him, that Gonsaluo was a Magician, who [etc.]. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. iii. (1840) 82 The honourable person..who I seemed to suggest was not to be believed. 1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Study Nat. (1799) II. 567, I have no need to suggest, that these inscriptions might be conceived in a much happier style than mine. 1798S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. II. 125 The drawing-master..suggested how irksome it ever is to fill up the outline we delight to throw off the fancy. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 73 They suggest that Socrates should be invited to take part in the consultation.
d. To utter as a suggestion.
1837Dickens Pickw. xli, ‘Will you take three bob?’ ‘And a bender’, suggested the clerical gentleman. 1881R. A. King Love the Debt xix, ‘I think I'd try giving her notice again, first’, hesitatively suggested his feeble fellow-bachelor.
e. refl. Of an idea, proposition, etc.: To present itself to the mind.
1751Fielding Amelia I. iii. iii. 187 The thought of going back at first suggested itself. 1801Farmer's Mag. Apr. 221 No wonder the idea of emigration should suggest itself. 1861Paley æschylus (ed. 2) Prometh. 379 note, The danger of approaching the crater in an eruption naturally suggested itself. 1898‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner x. 101 It must assuredly suggest itself to any one of us that the best method of doing this is [etc.].
†2.
a. To prompt (a person) to evil; to tempt to or to do something; to seduce or tempt away. Obs.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. xiii, Pamela (whom thy Maister most perniciously hath suggested out of my dominion). 1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 780 Which partie-coated presence of loose loue..Those heauenlie eies that looke into these faults Suggested vs to make. 1591― Two Gent. iii. i. 34 Knowing that tender youth is soone suggested, I nightly lodge her in an vpper Towre. 1601― All's well iv. v. 47, I giue thee not this to suggest thee from thy master. 1613― Hen. VIII, i. i. 164 This holy Foxe..suggests the King our Master To this last costly Treaty. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §37 The unquiet walkes of Devils, prompting and suggesting us unto mischiefe.
†b. To insinuate into (a person's mind) the (false) idea that, etc. Obs.
1607Shakes. Cor. ii. i. 261 We must suggest the People, in what hatred He still hath held them. 1689Col. Rec. Pennsylv. I. 297 Some persons have indeavored to suggest and insence ye minds of the good people, That the Governor had a designe.
3. To give a hint or inkling of, without plain or direct expression or explanation.
1697Dryden Virg. Georg., Ess. Wks. 1721 I. 203 Virgil..loves to suggest a Truth indirectly. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. (1871) I. 121 It [sc. a statue] suggests far more than it shows. 1900Jrnl. Sch. Geog. (U.S.) Apr. 126 Such a knowledge of society cannot be, with profit, more than suggested in the early years.
4. a. Of things: To call up the thought of by association or natural connexion of ideas.
1709Berkeley Th. Vision §25 One idea may suggest another to the mind. 1733― Th. Vision Vind. §39 All signs suggest the things signified. 1764Reid Inquiry ii. §7 A certain kind of sound suggests immediately to the mind, a coach passing in the street. 1859Hawthorne Transform. xxix. 226 Such silvery ones [sc. clouds] as those..have often suggested sculpturesque groups, figures, and attitudes. 1864Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. xv. (1875) 255 Democratic Athens, oligarchic Rome, suggest to us Pericles and Brutus. 1894H. Drummond Ascent of Man 47 A process of growth suggests to the reason the work of an intelligent Mind.
b. To give the impression of the existence or presence of.
1816A. Knox Rem. (1834) I. 56 This took place..to such a degree, as to suggest strong wishes for reunion with the Roman Catholic Church. 1898‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner i. 2 With an air suggesting a desire to attract as little attention as possible.
5. Law. To put forward in a ‘suggestion’.
1719Lilly Pract. Reg. II. 537 There ought to be an Affidavit made of the Matter suggested. 1768Blackstone Comm. iii. vii. 113 If..the court shall finally be of opinion, that the matter suggested is a good and sufficient ground of prohibition in point of law.
6. In hypnotism, to influence by suggestion.
1895in Funk's Stand. Dict. 1903F. W. H. Myers Human Pers. I. 175 The man who is ‘suggested’ into sobriety.
7. absol. or intr. † To prompt or tempt to evil (obs.); to make or offer a suggestion.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, ii. ii. 114 Other diuels that suggest by treasons. 1604― Oth. ii. iii. 358 When diuels will the blackest sinnes put on, They do suggest at first with heauenly shewes. 1635Quarles Embl. i. i. (1718) 7 The devil may suggest, compel he cannot. 1675Marquis of Worcester in Essex Papers (Camden) 38 We beg..that you would suggest if you can think of any other person. a1721Prior Dial. Dead (1907) 223 That sprightly way of thinking as wildly as your imagination can suggest. 1855Tennyson Will 14 Who..ever weaker grows thro' acted crime, Or seeming-genial venial fault, Recurring and suggesting still! |