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▪ I. suspect, n.1 Obs. or arch.|səˈspɛkt| Also 4 Sc. -ec, 5–6 -ecte, 6 -eckte, Sc. -ek. [ad. L. suspectus, in class L. looking up, a height, esteem, respect, in med.L. suspicion (after suspectus pa. pple., and suspicĕre), f. suspect-, suspicĕre: see suspect a. and v. Cf. It. sospetto.] 1. The or an act of suspecting, or the condition of being suspected; = suspicion 1. In earliest use chiefly in phraseological expressions: see esp. b, and cf. respect n.
c1386Chaucer Doctor's T. 263 The peple anon hath suspect of this thyng,..That it was by the assent of Apius. c1440Alphabet of Tales 49 Þat no suspecte rise betwix vs þat myght hurte þi gude name. a1542Wyatt Poems, ‘And if an lye’ 22 My suspect is without blame, For..othr moo have denyd the same; Then it is not Jelowsye. c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxxiv. 141 Thairfor fle fra suspek. 1577Holinshed Chron. II. 1777/2 If any of you be in suspect, that..my meaning is to do..any thing where⁓with the realme may haue iust cause to be discontented. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. iii. i. 87 You..draw within the compasse of suspect Th' vnuiolated honor of your wife. 1595Daniel Civ. Wars iii. xxxiii, They might hold sure intelligence Among themselues without suspect t' offend. c1600Chalkhill Thealma & Cl. (1683) 121 Without suspect they fell into the Trap Anaxocles had laid. 1620Quarles Feast for Wormes iv. 1 When a Thiefe's appre'ended on suspect. 1628Feltham Resolves ii. [i.] xciii. 271 By this meanes, they often bring goodnesse, into suspect. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. i. Ad Sect. ii. §9 If the Holy Jesus did suffer his Mother to fall into misinterpretation and suspect. 1881Swinburne Mary Stuart ii. i. 71 She..avows By silence and suspect of jealous heart Her manifest foul conscience. †b. to have (or hold) in suspect: to be suspicious of, suspect: cf. suspicion 2 f. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋230 Thou shalt also haue in suspect the conseillyng of wikked folk. 1493Festivall (W. de W. 1515) 30 b, By counseyle of the people he had the lyon in suspecte. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cclxii. 388 The vycount of Rochechourt..was had in suspect to haue tourned frenche. 1533J. Heywood Johan A iij, Well husbande, nowe I do coniect That thou hast me somwhat in suspect. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iv. i. 142 Giue me assurance with some friendly Vow, That I may neuer haue you in suspect. 1615Daniel Hymen's Tri. ii. i, Held ever in Restraint, and in Suspect. †c. Const. in, of, to (the person or thing about whom or which something is suspected). Obs.
c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 905 This olde poure man Was euere in suspect of hir mariage. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xlvii. 68 Wherof all the Countrey..had great suspect of treason to the Captayne. a1533― Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) R v, Ther fel on him an other malady..which put..his frendes in great suspect of his helthe. 1535in Lett. Suppr. Monast. (Camden) 74 Not for any defaut or suspect that I have in doctour Lee. 1638Nabbes Bride i. iii. (1640) B iv, Thou art base In thy suspect of her. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 264 That you may have no suspect of these my words. d. Const. of (the evil suspected).
1523[see c]. 1555Philpot in Foxe A. & M. (1563) 1388/2, I haue bene in prison thus long..upon suspecte of setting foorth the reporte thereof. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 105 She..slinketh into his companie without any surmise or suspect had of his part of any such kind of deceipt. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. iii. 23 The faire Serena..Wandred about the fields..Without suspect of ill or daungers hidden dred. a1639Webster Appius & Virginia i. i, Arraign'd before the Senate For some suspect of treason. e. with a and pl. = suspicion 1 b.
1541Wyatt Def. Poet. Wks. (1831) p. lviii, Neither God's law, nor man's law..condemneth a man for suspects: but for such a suspect..that may be so apparent..that it may be a grievous matter. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. iii. 89 You do me shamefull iniurie, Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects. 1598Yong Diana 145 Behold then..how much he was giuen to false suspects and wrongfull iealousie. 1657J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 457 The former manner of proceeding..makes..the Writer..fall under a just suspect. 1768Goldsm. Good-n. Man v. i, Have I had my hand to addresses, and my head in the print-shops; and talk to me of suspects? † f. Ground of suspicion; = suspicion 1 c.
1586A. Day Engl. Secretorie ii. (1625) 17 Seeing..you also doe grant, that in all his behauiour you neuer saw so much as one suspect. †2. Expectation; esp. apprehensive expectation; = suspicion 4. Obs.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxxvi. (Baptista) 1013 Suspec had he þat þai for his iniquite Suld sla hyme. c1400Rule St. Benet (Prose) 126 Hauynge euer suspect for to be brought to the ferefull Iugement of god. 1620Quarles Feast for Wormes xi. 11 Was there, O was there not a iust suspect, My preaching would procuer this effect? ▪ II. suspect, a. and n.2|ˈsʌspɛkt, səˈspɛkt| Also 4 suspette, 4–7 suspecte, 6 Sc. suspek. [ad. L. suspectus, pa. pple. of suspicĕre (see next): partly after OF. sospet, later (and mod.F.) suspect = Pr. sospech, It. sospetto, OSp. suspecto, Pg. suspeito. The present currency of this word is chiefly due to its revived use in connexion with the events of the French Revolution (cf. la loi des suspects of 1793).] A. adj. Suspected; regarded with suspicion or distrust; that is an object of suspicion; in early use also, exciting or deserving suspicion, suspicious.
1340Ayenb. 205 Behoueþ him beuly þe encheysones of zenne ase speke priueliche to wyfman in stede suspect on wyþ one. c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 485 Suspecious was the diffame of this man, Suspect his face, suspect his word also. 1401Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 87 Who is oonis suspect, he is half honged. 1433Rolls of Parlt. IV. 447/1 Duellyng in a suspect and wycked place. 1525tr. Brunswyke's Handywork Surg. xv. D j, Yf y⊇ woundyd persone haue any of these chaunches..it is a suspecte tokyn or sygne. 1525Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 113 Quhat sumeuer personis that beis suspekit to have ony suspek person within thaim. 1576Gascoigne Steele Gl. 242 An age suspect, bycause of youthes misdeedes. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxv. §13 As for..compleatnes in diuinitie it is not to be sought, which makes this course of artificiall diuinitie the more suspecte. 1671Milton P.R. ii. 399, I see What I can do or offer is suspect. 1702Guide for Constables 111 If a scholar in the university..begin to be suspect.
1817Byron Beppo xvii, Shakspeare described the sex in Desdemona As very fair, but yet suspect in fame. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. ii. v. (1872) 77 We have him..lying safe in the Prison of Grenoble, since September last, for he had long been suspect! 1880Fortn. Rev. May 677 Every doctrine..which claimed an à priori or intuitive character, was therefore suspect. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 431 In tropical regions,..all water should be looked upon as suspect and treated accordingly. †b. to have or hold (a person or thing) suspect: to be suspicious of, suspect. Obs.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 291 Ȝif þou seie þat popis lawe spekiþ oþer wise of jugement, haue þe popis lawe more suspette. c1380― Sel. Wks. II. 388 If þei failen in þis point, have hem suspect as fendis children. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1517 Hard is be holden suspect with þe grete: His tale schal be leeued but nat ourys. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 185 Have me not suspecte, I mene no tresone. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xx. 34 Be thow not ane roundar in the nwke, For, gif thow be, men will hald the suspect. c1530L. Cox Rhet. (1899) 71 We haue one suspecte that of very lykelyhode it shulde be he that hathe commytted the cryme. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) G iij, Wise men haue hym as suspecte that the commons desyre. †c. Const. to (north. dial. till) the person suspecting. (Cf. suspect v. 1 b.) Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 27325 Þat sco hir saul be sauuand, And noght suspect til hir husband. 1580–1Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 347 Quhairthrow he may be suspect judge to thame. 1635R. N. tr. Camden's Hist. Eliz. i. 127 This sounded not very pleasingly in the Spaniard's eares, to whom the power of the French was suspect. 1663Heath Flagellum (1672) 6 Stealing the young Pidgeons,..and that so publiquely, that he became dreadfully suspect to all the adjacent Country. d. Const. of the evil, etc. suspected.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 2 Al þis nouelrie of ordris is suspect of ypocrisie. 1423Jas. I Kingis Q. cxxxvii, The remanant..For otheris gilt ar suspect of vntreuth. 1432Paston Lett. I. 32 Eny persone..suspect of mysgovernance. 1556J. Heywood Spider & F. x. 54 Ye may detaine A flie: suspect of crime, not proued plaine. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 317, I fear, of Envie I should be suspect.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. iv. vi, If Suspect of nothing else, you may grow, as came to be a saying, ‘Suspect of being Suspect!’ 1912W. Ward Life Newman I. ii. 73 The members of the party were suspect of Romanism. †e. Const. inf. Obs. rare.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. viii. 6 He held them suspect to be ageynst hym. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 102 Many often tymes are suspecte to speake thynges of malice, or for hope of gaine. B. n. 1. A suspected person; one suspected of some offence, evil intention, or the like; a suspicious character, esp. one under surveillance as such.
1591Lambarde Eiren. i. iii. 16 A Constable might at the common lawe, haue bailed a suspect of felonie by Obligation. 1592Warner Alb. Eng. ix. xlix. (1612) 226 Recusants and Suspects of note. 1602Lambarde Eiren. ii. vii. 196 If such Suspect shall refuse to be so bound, then may such Iustice send such Suspect to the next Gaole.
1802C. James Milit. Dict., Suspect, a term adopted by the modern French to signify any person suspected of being an enemy, or indifferent to the cause of the Revolution. 1838Sir J. Stephen Eccl. Biogr. (1849) II. 210 ‘Relations of peace and amity’ were established between the Intendant and the suspects. 1852Gladstone Glean. (1879) IV. 97 If they are in search of a political suspect, and conceive he has absconded. 1881Daily Tel. 18 June, Arrested as a suspect under the Coercion Act. 1899R. P. Watson Mem. 131 Landing here I was treated as a suspect. †2. A thing regarded with suspicion. Obs. rare.
1625Bacon Ess., Innovations (Arb.) 527 That the Nouelty, though it be not reiected, yet be held for a Suspect. ▪ III. suspect, v.|səˈspɛkt| Also 6 Sc. -ek, -eck, 6–7 contr. pa. pple. suspect. [f. L. suspect-, pa. ppl. stem of suspicĕre to look up, look up to, admire, esteem, (chiefly in pa. pple.) to suspect, f. su(b)- (see sub- ad init. and 24, 25) + specĕre to look, cognate with Skr. spaç to see, OHG. spehôn (see espy).] 1. trans. To imagine something evil, wrong, or undesirable in (a person or thing) on slight or no evidence; to believe or fancy to be guilty or faulty, with insufficient proof or knowledge; to have suspicions or doubts about, be suspicious of.
c1500Lancelot 1632 But he the Iug, that no man may susspek, Euery thing ful Iustly sal correk. 1515Sampson in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) I. i. 16 As they heard the tenor of the breve, one of them with a quick mind suspected the breve in three places. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 71 Zwynglius dred bad measure suspecting bothe the men and the place. Ibid. 239 Bothe Fraunce & Englande leuie great force of men, whiche is greatly to be suspected. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. i. iii. 162 Whose owne hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 53 The disunitie of the professors made many to suspect the profession. 1649Lovelace Poems 38 Souldiers suspected of their courage. 1691Ray Creation i. (1692) 74, I suspect all those Relations concerning Trees growing at the bottom of the Sea. 1776Trial of Nundocomar 97/2 Did you see upon the face of the bond any thing to make you suspect it? 1781Cowper Table-T. 141 To be suspected, thwarted, and withstood, E'en when he labours for his country's good. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 170 The people suspected the gentlemen, the gentlemen feared the people. 1879‘E. Garrett’ House by Works I. 82 Jacob gave Paul no reason to suspect the effect of a wider scope of life and happiness. 1897‘G. Allen’ Typewriter Girl vi. 60 The meat and bread were wholesome; but I suspected their cleanliness. †b. suspected to (a person): mistrusted by; = suspect to, suspect a. c. Obs. After L. suspectus with the dative.
1570Buchanan Admon. Wks. (S.T.S.) 25 Not suspectit to ane king and assurit of his awin estait. 1579Fenton Guicciard. (1618) 268 The licentious bahauiour of the Commons was suspected to him. 1667Milton P.L. xii. 165 He..leaves his Race Growing into a Nation, and now grown Suspected to a sequent King. 1692Dryden St. Euremont's Ess. 212 A Science which was already suspected to me appeared too vain to enslave my self to it any longer. 1769Junius Lett. i. (1788) 38 Behold..the administration of justice become..suspected to the whole body of the people. 1807Robinson Archæol. Græca iii. ix. 240 To the more sagacious..the answers of the oracle were suspected. †c. Const. clause: To doubt whether{ddd}rare.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 337, I shrewdly suspect whether ever this were the Hecatompylos of Ortellius. 2. To imagine or fancy something, esp. something wrong, about (a person or thing) with slight or no proof: with various const. expressing that which is so imagined. a. const. of, † with, † for.
1483–4Act 1 Rich. III, c. 3 (heading) An Act for baylyng of persons suspected of Felony. 1502Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 348 Certane personis that wer suspeckit of murthur. 1598Shakes. Merry W. iv. iv. 7, I rather will suspect the Sunne with cold Then thee with wantonnes. a1623Buck Rich. III, i. (1646) 4 Philippe le Grosse..suspected him for too familiar commerce with his bed. 1641Prynne Antipathie i. i. 29 Many suspected for doing it, were committed to prison. 1727Swift Circumcis. E. Curll Wks. 1755 III. i. 165 Most of the children of Israel are suspected for holding the same doctrine. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. iii. 17 At least tell me, that you do not really suspect me of any hand in her death. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man iii. 36 Those who are too well acquainted with the sagacity..of Hekekyan Bey to suspect him of having been deceived. 1897Watts-Dunton Aylwin i. i, I half began to suspect myself of secret impulses of a savage kind. b. with obj. and compl. (sometimes introduced by as or for), and in corresp. passive use. Now rare or Obs.
1515Barclay Egloges ii. (1570) B iij b/2 Thou mayst suspect and trowe Him more in fauour..then thou. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iii. ii. 186 Than you, belike, suspect these Noblemen, As guilty of Duke Humphrie's timelesse death. 1594― Rich. III, i. iii. 223 Thy Friends suspect for Traytors. 1611― Wint. T. ii. iii. 107 Least she suspect, as he do's, Her Children, not her Husbands. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 337 Let us not then suspect our happie State Left so imperfet by the Maker wise. 1689in Acts Parlt. Scotl. (1875) XII. 58/2 A warrant to cite such as are suspect guilty to compeir. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 72 One would not suspect him by his Phiz, for a Politician. 1742Young Nt. Th. i. 418 At thirty man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan. c. with obj. and inf., and in corresp. passive use.
1525[see suspect a. 1]. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI 176 The citezens of the citie..they sore suspected, rather to fauour then to hate, the erles of Marche, & Warwycke. 1604Shakes. Oth. v. i. 85, I do suspect this Trash To be a party in this Iniury. 1647Fuller Good Th. in Worse T. (1841) 120 His gracious majesty hath been suspected to be popishly inclined. 1691Ray Creation Pref. (1692) A v, By Virtue of my Function, I suspect my self to be obliged to Write something in Divinity. 1798Ferriar Illustr. Sterne, etc. 68 Who would suspect this heroic strain to be a plagiarism? 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. lxxi, He believed that Lydgate suspected his orders to have been intentionally disobeyed. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 486 [They] have recorded cases of hæmatemesis suspected to own a similar cause. †d. with obj. and clause introduced by that (cf. 3 b). Obs. rare.
1551T. Wilson Logic (1580) 47 We suspect suche a one that he is not altogether cleare. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, iii. vii. 89 Sorry I am, my Noble Cousin should Suspect me, that I meane no good to him. 3. To imagine or fancy (something) to be possible or likely; to have a faint notion or inkling of; to surmise. a. with simple object.
c1550Lloyd Treas. Health T j, Geue the same vnto the pacient to drinke in the houre suspectid of the feuers approching. 1563Foxe A. & M. 1714/2 Much suspected by mee, Nothing proued can be. Quod Elizabeth the prisoner. c1590Greene Fr. Bacon ii. 13 We hear, that long we haue suspect, That thou art read in Magicks mysterie. 1625Bacon Ess., Suspicion (Arb.) 528 There is Nothing makes a Man Suspect much, more then to Know little. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. iii. 11 If all be true that is suspected, or halfe what is related, there have not wanted, many strange deceptions. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §23 They had thought of an expedient..and that it should be Executed before it should be Suspected. 1777Burke Corr. (1844) II. 147 You do not..suspect half enough the villany of others. 1827Scott Chron. Canongate iv, Whether the..old woman did, or did not, suspect the identity of her guest with [etc.]. 1862Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xii. iii. (1872) IV. 145 Who dared suspect our King's indifference to Protestantism? 1879G. C. Harlan Eyesight ii. 17 This is the first symptom looked for when opium poisoning is suspected. b. with obj. clause; also parenthetically, with as or so, or ellipt.
1549Compl. Scot. xii. 100 Pontius his sone suspekit that his father dottit in folie throcht his grit aige. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 182 Suspecting that there was some unknowne vertue in that picture, he called it backe. 1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 495 He read something in my Face which made him..suspect who I was. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 77 They have strangled..Sultan Osman, because (as they suspected) he had a mind to rid himself of them. 1788M. Cutler in Life, etc. (1888) I. 415, I..suspected it was too late for any kind of medicine to produce any valuable effect. 1815Scott Guy M. l, I believe I may have some wrongs to repair towards you—I have often suspected so. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. viii. II. 348 note, The late Alexander Knox..learned, I suspect, much of his theological system from Fowler's writings. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxxiii. (1878) 558, I did not even suspect how ill she would be. 1871Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 82 The young Examinee is pleasantly surprised at finding that he knows more than he suspected. 4. absol. (from 1 or 3) or intr. To imagine something, esp. some evil, as possible or likely; to have or feel suspicion.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 1153 It shall suspect where is no cause of feare, It shall not feare where it should most mistrust. 1604― Oth. iii. iii. 170 Oh, what damned minutes tels he ore, Who dotes, yet doubts: Suspects, yet soundly loues? 1691Norris Pract. Disc. 55 It will then be as lawful for me to Suspect as to Judge more absolutely. 1819Shelley Cenci v. ii. 43 Some..slave.., bade to answer, not as he believes, But as those may suspect or do desire Whose questions thence suggest their own reply. 1849James Woodman ix, Iola was too young and simple to suspect or to doubt. †5. trans. With reference to a future possibility: To expect; esp. to expect with dread or apprehension. (With simple obj. or obj. cl.; rarely with inf.) Obs. or merged in 3.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxiii. (Percy Soc.) 162, I dyde suspecte That the great gyaunte unto me wolde hast. 1650Fuller Pisgah iii. vi. 330 When the siege of Jerusalem was suspected from Rezin king of Syria and Pekah king of Israel. 1660― Mixt Contempl. (1841) 257 The innocent child whose precipice they suspected. 1787William of Normandy I. 131 He rather suspected to receive a reward for his pretended fidelity. 1794Paley Evid. iii. iv. (1817) 300 One might have suspected, that at least all those who stood by the sepulchre when Lazarus was raised, would have believed in Jesus. †6. To regard, take note of, care for; to respect.
1590Greene Never too late (1600) 70 Tush the Lord regardeth not the way of sinners, nor suspecteth the misdeeds of men. 1605Timme Quersit. i. ii. 8 They were..continued in theyr being by that diuine power, perpetually maintaining and suspecting them. 1649Davenant Love & Hon. v. iii. 22 It shall be openly perform'd, to shew I not suspect men's censure or dislike. 1656North's Plutarch 927 (Epaminondas) Not suspecting [edd. 1612, 1631 respecting] the dignity of an Ambassador, nor of his Country. †7. With inf. To think in the least, have any idea of (doing something). Obs. rare—1.
1628Gaule Pract. The. (1629) 179 Farre be it from vs, wee should once suspect to chide him. Hence suˈspecting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1691Norris Pract. Disc. 54 Not that we think Suspecting to be in itself unlawful. 1732Swift Advant. by Repealing Test ⁋24 If I had not known it already to have gotten ground in many suspecting heads. |