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suppressed, ppl. a.|səˈprɛst| [f. as suppressal + -ed1.] a. In various senses of the verb suppress.
1620T. Granger Div. Logike 155 Earth-creeping sprigge, base bred, of head supprest. c1790Cowper Comm. Milton's P.L. Wks. 1837 XV. 298 The author possesses more fire than he shows. There is suppressed force in it. 1791Burke Th. French Aff. Wks. 1808 VII. 44 The suppressed faction, though suppressed, exists. Under the ashes, the embers of the late commotions are still warm. 1801Med. Jrnl. V. 63 The suppressed perspirable matter. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. xxiv, With smile suppressed and shy. 1843Borrow Bible in Spain xv, Recently removed from some of the suppressed convents. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. xiv. (1879) 307 The suppressed action of the volcanos. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola v, A voice..altered by some suppressed feeling. 1863Hotten Hand-bk. Topogr. 103/2 Sm. 8vo, with the rare Suppressed leaf. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 9 Symptoms..known as..‘suppressed’ ‘anomalous’ or ‘latent gout’. b. Bot. Said of parts normally or typically present, but not found in the particular case in question. (Usually as predicate or pa. pple.)
1849Balfour Man. Bot. §647 In Tropæolum pentaphyllum..there are three petals suppressed, as shown by the position of the two remaining ones; there are two rows of stamens, in each of which one is awanting, and there are two carpels suppressed. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 410 Carex Bœnninghauseniana... Bracts sometimes wholly suppressed. c. Forestry. Of a tree: growing in the lower levels of a forest.
1893[see dominant a. 6]. 1938J. S. Boyce Forest Pathol. xvi. 388 In Germany suppressed trees of artificially infected red beech were found to be more susceptible to decay. 1976[see overtopped ppl. a.]. d. Fitted with an interference suppressor.
1959Which? Aug. 91/1 All [clothes driers]..were stable.., and suppressed for TV, though none was completely suppressed for radio. 1970AA Bk. Car. 332/3 (caption) On cars not fitted with suppressed high-tension leads or caps, insert individual line suppressors in each HT lead. e. suppressed-carrier Telecommunications, usu. attrib. (see quot. 1924).
1924S. R. Roget Dict. Electr. Terms 251/1 Suppressed carrier wave telephony, a system of Carrier Current Telephony in which the excess of unmodulated carrier wave is filtered out and not transmitted, but re-introduced in the receiving apparatus in sufficient quantity to prevent distortion. 1935[see pilot n. 6]. 1959[see phasing vbl. n. 1]. 1974Harvey & Bohlman Stereo F.M. Radio Handbk. ii. 12 In the Zenith-G.E. system..a suppressed-carrier or balanced modulator is employed. Hence suppressedly |-ɪdlɪ| adv., in a suppressed tone; with restrained utterance or the like.
1867C. J. Smith Syn. & Antonyms s.v. Aloud, Inaudibly. Suppressedly. 1873R. Broughton Nancy I. 24, I have..said ‘good-night’ in a tone as suppressedly hostile as his own. 1880― Sec. Th. ii. iv, They both laugh low and suppressedly. 1887Hardy Woodlanders III. v. 87 His eyes now suppressedly looked his pleasure. |